Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Year 1948, quote: "Prominent young matron carries election by landslide vote...
...Angeles matron bought 16 dresses, four suits, three coats, the cheapest $69.95. One hefty customer grabbed a size-12 dress off a rack, told the salesgirl: "Yes, I'm too big for it, but I can always find someone to buy it from me if I can't have it altered...
While the nation's bankers and OPA bigwigs watched the experiment with interest, some of the local Albany-Schenectady-Troy citizens who read of the new banking shenanigans in their papers were confused. A matron walked into one bank to buy a pound of sugar...
...rehearsing a new show last summer when she fell ill. A musi-comedy star in the gaslit years, she switched to plays at the turn of the century, made a special type of role famed as "a Marie Tempest part." The part: a sprightly, well-bred matron, with a feline manner and a sharp tongue but a heart of gold. She lost most of her possessions when her home was bombed a year ago. Ill, she commented: "Hitler has taken nearly everything from me but my life, but you can't live on regret...
...supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez, and a delightful young lady named Joan Tetzel who, as a coltish adolescent, is quite the most lovely and refreshing thing that Boston has seen in months...