Word: matronly
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...dashing young matron addressing her young son ("Your father and I are now separated, Robert. After this you will please refer to him as 'that heel...
...Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those cinemaddicts who like James Cagney chiefly for his fleet footwork and persuasive paws. As a period document, Johnny Come Lately bogs down neither in history nor documentation. Its historicity is chiefly...
...think that I'll tell you about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...
Year 1948, quote: "Prominent young matron carries election by landslide vote...
...Angeles matron bought 16 dresses, four suits, three coats, the cheapest $69.95. One hefty customer grabbed a size-12 dress off a rack, told the salesgirl: "Yes, I'm too big for it, but I can always find someone to buy it from me if I can't have it altered...