Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, beyond its teaching staff, Laradon Hall has a registered nurse, a night matron and a dietitian. To get everything started, Joe had exhausted his savings. Boarding students are supposed to pay $140 a month, day students $40. But for parents who cannot afford to pay, Joe has been charging nothing...
Matinees & Poetry. Helen Hokinson was the recording secretary of the clubwoman, the gentle, penetrating chronicler of the upper-middle-class matron. In 24 years of cartooning for The New Yorker (circ. 325,000), she limned her ladies with pen and wash more than 1,700 times-at the dressmaker's, in banks and bookshops, at matinees and flower shows, bridge clubs and poetry societies...
...girls were middle-aged but determinedly young in heart, well-upholstered but hopefully just about to reduce, relentlessly uplift-minded and bewilderedly civic-conscious. Overwhelmed by the mysteries of the inheritance tax, the Hokinson matron asked: "How much would my tax be if I left it all to the government?" With a memorable culture-or-bust look, she inquired of a bookstore clerk: "Isn't it about time another one of John Gunther's 'Insides' came out?" And she begged her hairdresser: "Now please bear in mind that I am not Ingrid Bergman...
...engagement announced, neighbors began to peer in the windows and crowd into the apartment. The Veep exuberantly kissed a matron or two, shook hands all around. Mrs. Hadley's younger daughter Jane came in shyly, and the Veep looped an arm around her waist happily. But he refused to pose with his arm around his lady. "No histrionics," said Barkley. "This is going to be strictly dignified...
...last year, the courageous speaker, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, went further; than either royal personages or most 23-year-olds are wont to do in speaking her mind. "We live in an age of growing self-indulgence," she warned her Mothers' Union audience, which included a turbaned matron from Lagos, "of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards . . . When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes, we can have no doubt that divorce and separation are responsible for some of the darkest evils...