Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them-seizing many plain and fancy weapons (military rifles, big-game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically cut grey suits, supposedly for use as uniforms in some future uprising. The 17th precinct station became a sort of society resort. One Buenos Aires matron, unable to send wine to her son because "liquor is not allowed in the jail," was heard to cry, "How barbarous...
...half expected to be buffeted and assaulted by modernist clangor, had a pleasant enough half hour, called Conductor Ormandy back for four bows. Sergei Prokofiev had done what he had been told to do: his symphony could be understood by almost anybody on a single hearing. A Philadelphia matron summed up his last work in a sentence. "It sounds," she sighed happily, "just like Gilbert & Sullivan." For Sergei Prokofiev, the composer who once seemed to be leading his musical generation toward powerful new ranges of expression, her words were a tragic epitaph...
...elegant houses along London's Pont Street, one door remains unlocked far into the night. Every once in a while, a chic miss walks in, nods to the matron sitting in the hall, then hurries up to bed. To Londoners, these girls are known as Monkeys-members of what is commonly called the Monkey Club. But such titles are misleading: the girls happen to be students at the most famous and fashionable finishing school in Britain...
...quiet country life in England, and Betsy's diary became filled with the domestic trivialities of a life fully enjoyed. Betsy amassed a brood of children, worried over their manners and education, "danced 24 couples till past four o'clock in the morning," and, as a matron of 19, sniffed that "the fashion now is to be almost naked, even old women show all their necks and back." Her happiness was in her marriage: "Mr. Fremantle very loving to his wife who is uncommonly attentive...
Loder, the cynic, and St. John, the rake, crisply thrust and parry with verbal rapiers, while Miss Best as a dowdy but direct matron blunts them both. The frame-work for all this wordplay is Loder's visit to his divorced wife (Brenda Forbes); St. John broke up the marriage five years before and is still hanging around. Miss Best, a relative from Liverpool named Jane, adds her bit to the general tension by entering and announcing her engagement to a man half...