Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These women, a young one and an old one, keep alive by displaying to visitors who look as if they would pay for the privilege a letter from George Gordon, Lord B. The play shows a crude Matron from Milwaukee and her setted husband enjoying, but not paying for, the privilege. The play ends on a flat and irrelevant imputation that the younger lady is none other than Lord Byron's granddaughter...
Back in the women's cell block, Mrs. Li and the head matron made up Yoshiko's bed and began assembling her belongings. Both women's eyes were red, as were those of a number of other women prisoners...
...woman she was not bad," the matron said. "All of us liked her. One could never guess she was a famous...
Bosom Companion. In San Antonio, Jail Matron Mamie Lyons frisked a new arrival, shook a pet tarantula out of her brassiere...
...audience in Cleveland's Labor Hall was in an ugly mood. The 450 union men had come to hear a debate between two rival candidates for the school board, but their favorite, a union president, had not appeared. As his opponent, a plump, middle-aged matron, stepped to the microphone, the audience began to boo and stamp. They did not know Mrs. Norma Wulff...