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While the nation's bankers and OPA bigwigs watched the experiment with interest, some of the local Albany-Schenectady-Troy citizens who read of the new banking shenanigans in their papers were confused. A matron walked into one bank to buy a pound of sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ration Banking | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...rehearsing a new show last summer when she fell ill. A musi-comedy star in the gaslit years, she switched to plays at the turn of the century, made a special type of role famed as "a Marie Tempest part." The part: a sprightly, well-bred matron, with a feline manner and a sharp tongue but a heart of gold. She lost most of her possessions when her home was bombed a year ago. Ill, she commented: "Hitler has taken nearly everything from me but my life, but you can't live on regret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez, and a delightful young lady named Joan Tetzel who, as a coltish adolescent, is quite the most lovely and refreshing thing that Boston has seen in months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/7/1942 | See Source »

...John Dill has the handsomest head in town," commented a matron the other day as she looked across a garden party at the tall, handsome British field marshal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Washington Society Page | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Valuables. In Atlanta, a society matron bought a spare girdle, hustled it to the bank and filed it away in a safety deposit vault for future reference. In Van Nuys, Calif., somebody made off with a stagecoach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 6, 1942 | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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