Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Poetess Mrs. Sarojini Chattopadhyav Naidu became Acting President of the Indian National Congress, the sixth Acting President appointed since St. Gandhi was clapped into jail in January (TIME, Jan. 11). Poetess Naidu is still rich, still a potent poetess, but the slender, bashful Victorian maiden has become a matron with grown children who now devotes her large person and her vast wealth to the cause of Indian Independence. Fully expecting that His Majesty's Government would soon jail her, Mrs. Naidu keynoted while she could last week these facts...
...contended, "I have studied faithfully the protocols of untold numbers of matron rats who laid down their lives for the benefit of human mothers. ... I went over every bit of evidence for and against the hypothesis that a baby's birth weight is in direct relation to his mother's gain or loss during the gestation period. And I finally concluded that there is nothing...
...story is not yet under way, A matrimonial agency, in a most improbable mix-up, sends to Mr. Huston's doorstep a young girl of nineteen to be his second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...
...HUSBANDS Go?The tale of a young matron of Dubuque who almost went wrong...
...thought it, but surely French, the common property of polite peoples of all nations, was not beyond his ken. He fairly exuded French colloquialisms when he went to see "La Grande Mare". In this linguistic workout he had a lead on his immediate neighbors at the theatre, a portly matron from Melrose (she came to be enraptured of M. Chevalier) and the student from Boston Latin (he, to see la belle Mlle. Colbert), since he had seen the English version first. And thank the good Lord he had. At least he knew where and when to laugh, and just...