Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Dill has the handsomest head in town," commented a matron the other day as she looked across a garden party at the tall, handsome British field marshal...
Valuables. In Atlanta, a society matron bought a spare girdle, hustled it to the bank and filed it away in a safety deposit vault for future reference. In Van Nuys, Calif., somebody made off with a stagecoach...
Last fortnight while West Redding, Conn.'s Katherine Dreier was making her gift to Yale, another patroness of modern art did her bit for modern art in Baltimore. Baltimore's modern-minded matron was grey-bobbed Saidie May, diminutive, onetime wife of the League of Nation's opium-sleuthing Herbert...
...Liberty Belle brigade got under way last June, when the reluctance of San Antonio's young ladies to meet the Army so scandalized an energetic matron named Mrs. Norma M. Hancock that she soon had San Antonio by the ears. Business houses, clubs, churches and politicos earnestly persuaded girls to join up. To get a name for the corps, a citywide contest was held. Pretty Agnes MacTaggert, who won it, was denied membership in the Liberty Belles because she was only 16 (age limits...
...Creek Seminoles live in 20 scattered camps, "cluttered with dogs, pigs, chickens and small children, through which mélange the women calmly move." Though every good matron owns an antique Singer sewing machine, their other modern conveniences are rarely more than battered old lard pails. Of their social structure Spoehr writes...