Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday Jan. 15, 1916, lady-like chatter rang through the Victorian mansion at No. 856 Fifth Avenue as 24 players sat down to bridge. Over the six tables presided a plump, erect matron. When the game was over she rose, announced the prizes: one share of U. S. Steel preferred for each table. Steel preferred was $117 a share that day. The prizes totaled...
Vilma Foerster Renate Mueller Arvai, Director of the Bank Hermann Thimig Hasel, a Bank Clerk Felix Bressart Klapper, Head of the Bank's Employment Department Ludwig Stoessel Boarding House Matron Gertrude Wolle...
...gathered several hundred of Greater Boston's good citizens. High on the wall above them hung a large sign: "Ladies and Gentlemen: This is a place of refined Amusement. Whistling, Stomping of Feet, Drunkenness, Catcalls, and other Noises strictly prohibited". The audience whistled, stomped its feet, screamed, one doughty matron rang a cowbell. It was witnessing a great climax, the end of a Dance Marathon...
...Sally had good stuff in her; she sympathized with her Granny. Wartime and love's young dream threw her and Alan into each other's arms. For a while things got very serious for all the Sewalls. After the War Sally settled down to be a young matron; Alan went into the bank. Their personal crash came as the boom years ended. But Sally rescued her marriage from the way of all wrecks; the Sewalls pulled themselves together. It was a united and hopeful family, chastened by experience, that listened to the forward-looking Roosevelt Inaugural...
...seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes. And Florence Reed, permitted mellow, quizzical and domineering has a high time. A neighborly matron remarks in suprise at her daughter's knowledge of the turf: "We haven't had a horse in the place since her father died...