Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diseases go, German measles (rubella) is pipsqueak stuff. The rash fades quickly, rarely lasts longer than three days. But last week, Dr. Murray H. Bass of Manhattan had some things to say about German measles which sent many a matron scurrying to her medical books for symptoms (mild fever, spots...
...line in the Red Room of the White House. She greeted all 400 guests with enthusiasm, fumbled nary a name. Introductions over, she worked hard to keep everybody milling in the huge state dining room while a red-coated Marine band played familiar airs. There were high points. A matron squeaked: "My hero!" at the sight of Admiral William D. Leahy; a Texas colonel called Mrs. Tom Connally "Honey," and dozens craned to see Ike Eisenhower...
...rare occasions when she goes out, she wears American sports clothes. One of her recent visits was to a women's prison at Bedford Hills, near by, to gather information for use in the reform of China's prison system. There she chatted earnestly with the matron and inmates. Her reading is largely in the field of social reform...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...
...Angeles' county jail last week greying, motherly Mrs. Louise Peete Judson began preparing herself for death. When the matron and her fellow prisoners wept for her, she said: "Don't be troubled, my dears. Death is merely an eventuality in all our lives." They were not comforted : she was so nice, so poised, so kind. But throughout her life, death trailed her like the fragrance of the expensive perfume* she used...