Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rachele Mussolini, plump widow of the Duce. She was caught, along with her two youngest children, a jugful of jewelry and $120,000 cash, by partisans as she sought refuge in Switzerland. The Italians turned her over, as a harmless matron, to U.S. custody...
Beginning with a middle-aged matron and a bit of perplexing gossip, The Deep Mrs. Sykes ends by revealing the key dislocations in half a dozen lives. For all her inscrutable airs and vaunted "intuitions," Carrie Sykes (Catherine Willard) is just a stupid mischief-maker and egoist. When a woman in her cups spills the story that someone has been anonymously sending flowers to a neighborhood bride, Carrie suspects her own husband (Neil Hamilton), but lets the intoxicated woman-who goes haywire with jealousy-imagine it is hers. Actually it is Mrs. Sykes's married son-and gradually there...
...Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance. A persistent troublemaker, she called the young women "bitch" and "whore" to their faces. Most of the other prisoners just grew thinner and more depressed...
Cooler Sweaters. In Pittsburgh, a matron sent sweaters for the native girls living on the Pacific island where her husband was stationed, was horrified to hear that the girls had made them cooler by cutting two big holes in the front...
Newly arrived from Britain is a cheerful film, Back to Normal, showing young Britons merrily dancing and playing tennis and ping-pong, a carpenter at work with his tools, a child playing on a slide, a matron sedately pedaling a bicycle to market. What makes these ordinary goings-on extraordinary is the fact that all the actors are war-wounded cripples, with artificial arms or legs. The British Ministry of Information produced the film to reassure its bomb-battered people. It may be some comfort also to families of the 5,000-plus U.S. soldiers (the Navy has released...