Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palm Beach Matron Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 35, fifth wife of freewheeling Auto Heir Horace Dodge Jr., announced that she has raised $2.5 million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence...
Thanks to weeks of forewarning, all the struck hospitals had laid in extra stocks of food and linens, had enrolled volunteers who ran trays (with pickup meals on paper plates), trundled patients to and from operating theaters, operated elevators. One Park Avenue matron, Mrs. Sidney Milan, showed up with her butler: she passed out trays while he ran an elevator. Since professional staffs (doctors and nurses) were not involved, patients suffered no serious ill effects...
...songs. "I want to see the people," said Castro, trying to break through his 200-man guard. His escort hauled Castro off to his car. That night, he drew fluttery glances at a Women Lawyers Association meeting. "Doesn't he remind you of a younger Jimmy Stewart?" one matron asked...
...What well-educated natives," exclaimed a Midwestern matron upon arrival in the old British island of Jamaica. "They all speak English." ("What robbers!" she cried after her first taxi ride.) Everyone tried to fit in, and the first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...
...this atmosphere arrived an unlikely heroine: a strong-jawed, 26-year-old matron named Anna Cora Mowatt. Anna's lawyer-husband had broken down physically and financially, and Anna blithely set out to recoup by writing a play. Fashion, her maiden effort, ran a respectable string of performances at the Park in 1845, and launched Author Mowatt on a heady career as an actress. It also gave the U.S. its first home-grown play of any success...