Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Propagandist. Crisp, competent Yvette, now a stout matron of 36, gave a fine display of peasant shrewdness. She wrote a personal appeal to President Eisenhower,, got daughter Dorothy to write to a French radio program, Vous Etes Formidables ("You Are Terrific"), asking that her father's predicament be broadcast. More than 100,000 letters poured into the U.S. embassy in Paris begging that Wayne be pardoned...
...Fromms expect to lose $8,000 on this year's series. At intermission last week, one matron asked Norman Fromm if the program was not just a little too highbrow. Said Norman severely: "This is not just a Sunday outing." As if to prove him right, the audience downed a modest 108 bottles of champagne before returning soberly to their seats to sample Beethoven's Septet in E Flat Major...
...soothed, massaged and coifed in Madame Rubinstein's Manhattan salon, headquarters of her three-continent chain. A woman who wants to spend an entire day at the salon can spend up to $120 for a series of treatments that would make a siren out of a Westchester matron. First, she is told to change into a black leotard, given paper slippers and a white robe to wear. Her medical history is solemnly taken ("Any operations? How many children?"). After doing exercises in front of a mirror under direction of a Ph.D. from Vienna ($12), she hops into...
...Eventually Spiro is infected with the virus of sophistication, lands in the arms of Helen Bristow, a lonely, pliable American matron of about 45 who likes to play with Greek fire. Unfortunately for her, Spiro soon develops a rage to leave-for a pastry-plump Hellenic miss whose shipping-magnate daddy happens to be loaded with sugar. When Helen commits suicide, Spiro suffers a bad quarter-hour's remorse; it is nothing compared to the remorse he suffers after he marries the millionaire's daughter and discovers that wily old papa has cut the newlyweds off without...
Lady Emily (Emy to her family) was a bright-eyed matron married to a distinguished architect (designer of New Delhi, London's Cenotaph and Liverpool Cathedral). She belonged to a famed English family: grandfather was Statesman-Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings, Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii), and her father, first Earl of Lytton, was Viceroy of India (1876-80). There came a day in 1910 when Emy, then 36, no longer knew what to do with herself. Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that...