Word: matronly
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...next negative speaker, Donald McDonald '39. He proceeded to show that if women were allowed to be jurors, the family bridge tables would become deserted, and would make it necessary to take suits away from the deck. "And where would the woman be without her heart, and the matron without her club...
Merrily We Live (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) spins a yarn as merry as it is unimportant about a delightfully diffuse matron (Billie Burke) whose hobby is putting tramps back on their feet. When unshaven, wayfaring Author Brian Aherne wants to use her telephone, her uplifting eye lights up. First thing Wayfarer Aherne knows he has become the family's handsome, clean-shaven chauffeur; next thing he knows, the roving eye of Daughter Constance Bennett has lit up, too, and he becomes the centre of as stormy a family ruckus as ever squalled. Before its capricious hour-and-a-half...
...Public Welfare decided that, despite her able extracurricular activities, Dr. Smith was not giving the students of the N.T.S.G. the kind of discipline they deserved, asked her to resign. When Carrie Smith refused, the District Commissioners discharged her, replaced her with a male superintendent and a female jail matron as assistant...
...himself alone. Husbandly attention Alcmena welcomes, lover's desire she abhors. "Desire is a half-god," she affirms. "Let's leave the half-gods to the adolescent girls and the casually married." In the battle of wits and wills between the omnipotent god and the constant matron, Jupiter is charmed into a distinct loss of dignity and self-esteem as the price of his stolen night...
...Purple Shirts" aimed to exterminate "the mongrel race." Mr. Musiker, the composer who wanted to present to someone a tune that was running through his head, found the Purple Shirts anything but worthy of it. Nor did he like the silly way Mrs. Arbutus, a Park Avenue matron, sang it. Finally, after Mr. Musiker's tune had gone around the world ("they made a lullaby out of it in China" -to plink-plink accompaniment from the orchestra), Mr. Musiker came upon some students, presumably radical since they were singing Pie in the Sky. He was glad to give them...