Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buxom Mrs. Norton, no tearful, bumbling matron but a toughened politician of Mayor Frank Hague's hard-boiled Jersey City school, well knew what was about to happen. For while her New Deal colleague, ancient Adolph Sabath of Illinois, sat at the head of the long billiard-baized table as Rules Chairman, all eyes watched the committee's real overseer, Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Georgia, head hatchet-man of the conservatives...
...trial in U. S. District Court in Danville, Ill. last week were Maude Ault, now a plump matron of 48, and 29-year-old Robert Eugene, who had himself renamed Alt, charged with mail fraud. Indicted with them was James Cleary, who had signed letters soliciting funds, promising repayment when the estate was secured of $200 for $1. The letters claimed that Thomas Edmund Dewey, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone and Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Manhattan's great Chase National Bank were all interested in the case. Though indicted, James Cleary was not tried, for the good reason...
...Dorothy Barber, young Kansas City, Mo. matron who could not get enough food even though she ate 20 times a day (TIME, March 13), announced that she was not unduly hungry any more, had settled down to only three meals a day. "God has heard my prayers," cried she. "I really believe He has cured...
...many case, the show is slow starting, slow in development, and uninspiring in denouncement. Ina Claire as the matron is easily the outstanding asset, but she might do well to brush up on her lines...
Lord Howe never gets satisfaction from his Yankee gal, and whether she really loves him or not is a point lost in confusion. Barry Sullivan is an American spy is adequate, and Maxine Stuart as his betrothed is pleasant enough. Eda Heinemann as the matron's servant is the only convincing personality on the stage...