Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, 64, a widower since 1939, aloof, dictatorial publisher of Chicago's blatant Tribune; and Maryland Mathison Hooper, 47, sprightly, modish society matron, ex-Baltimore belle, longtime intimate of the Colonel and his late wife, recently divorced from Chicago Fuel Dealer Henry Hooper; both for the second time; in Chicago...
Some citizens actually took the Treasury's convenience measure to mean that they had to cash in their bonds. (One Philadelphia matron called her bank to explain that she could not get down that day and to ask if she could still get her money next day.) Some felt they need not hang on to their bonds any longer. One woman cashed in $1,000 worth "to bet on a race horse"; another got $75 to do her Christmas shopping "before the rest of the women pick over everything." A middle-aged couple cashed in $225 worth of bonds...
...dashing young matron addressing her young son ("Your father and I are now separated, Robert. After this you will please refer to him as 'that heel...
...Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those cinemaddicts who like James Cagney chiefly for his fleet footwork and persuasive paws. As a period document, Johnny Come Lately bogs down neither in history nor documentation. Its historicity is chiefly...
...think that I'll tell you about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...