Word: matronly
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Last fortnight while West Redding, Conn.'s Katherine Dreier was making her gift to Yale, another patroness of modern art did her bit for modern art in Baltimore. Baltimore's modern-minded matron was grey-bobbed Saidie May, diminutive, onetime wife of the League of Nation's opium-sleuthing Herbert...
...Liberty Belle brigade got under way last June, when the reluctance of San Antonio's young ladies to meet the Army so scandalized an energetic matron named Mrs. Norma M. Hancock that she soon had San Antonio by the ears. Business houses, clubs, churches and politicos earnestly persuaded girls to join up. To get a name for the corps, a citywide contest was held. Pretty Agnes MacTaggert, who won it, was denied membership in the Liberty Belles because she was only 16 (age limits...
...Creek Seminoles live in 20 scattered camps, "cluttered with dogs, pigs, chickens and small children, through which mélange the women calmly move." Though every good matron owns an antique Singer sewing machine, their other modern conveniences are rarely more than battered old lard pails. Of their social structure Spoehr writes...
Then there was Perpetual, owned and driven by foxy Doc Parshall, the Earl Sande of the sulky circuit. Perpetual, no great shakes as a two-year-old, had won three big stake races this summer (the Matron, the National and the Historic). But Doc's colt had recently come down with a fever, was seen stepping around the track wearing a jowl strap only an hour before the Big Race...
...simulates the original novel in every detail. All the emotions and reactions of a twentieth-century working girl and her undercover affair with a famous banker are there in perfect order. So much stirring of the human soul could, however, be fit only for the sensitivities of a disappointed matron, which is the aim of everything Miss Hurst has written...