Word: matronly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifty years ago, on a hot, muggy day in mid-June, about 200 young women filed into Agassiz Hall, their long white dresses peeking through their black robes as they marched to their seats. At the graduation rehearsal earlier that morning, Ethelind Elbert Austin '30 recalls, one of the matrons had informed the anxious group of Radcliffe seniors that, after eating some spoiled dormitory food the previous evening, serveral young women had been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates...
Many people supported Carter's decision to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union after its invasion into Afghanistan. For instance, a middle-aged Cambridge matron said, "It beats drafting...
...when the buses were supposed to pull out of the parking lot, the ranks had grown. A middle-aged Foxboro matron in an orange pantsuit and a mink coat, an overweight stetsonned friend of the family, and 15 or 20 reports. And another three buses...
...also a "modern Mormon matron" who, while not having been excommunicated or agreeing with Mrs. Johnson about the ERA, has felt the heavy hand, with which church leaders control the members. I do not think of the Mormon leadership as a particularly savage group. I would rather classify their attitude as plain run-of-the-mill misogyny...