Word: matronly
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...seems that purity of race is not everything. The son fends off a designing chorus girl. The daughter finds here true love. The horse winds the Futurity at Belmont Park (offstage), saves the family fortunes. And Florence Reed, permitted mellow, quizzical and domineering has a high time. A neighborly matron remarks in suprise at her daughter's knowledge of the turf: "We haven't had a horse in the place since her father died...
Early one evening last week a heavy rainstorm drenched New Jersey. At the Passaic Home & Orphan Asylum, six boys -Jacob Merlnizek, John Murdock, Douglas Fleming, Rudolph Borsche' Frank & Michael Mazzola, all between 11 and 15-were worried. Maybe their baseball field was washing away. They cunningly approached their matron. Didn't she want to know if the rain had damaged her garden? She did. She said they might go out if they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond...
...almost any other diplomat in the latter's native tongue. Once, at a Belgrade diplomatic soiree, Dr. Prince realized that he was stumped, could not talk to the Albanian Minister in Albanian. Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia! To me it is a sorry but I could not understand Americans...
...social settlement work in Manhattan she let herself fall in love with a worthless neurotic. Of him she was soon rid, suffering an abortion rather than bear his child. After a brief interlude as charitarian to a publicity-loving millionairess, Ann attacked penology, spent 14 hellish months as a matron in a Southern penitentiary. Conditions there and her helplessness to do anything lasting about them filled her with a horror of prisons, a grim determination to do what she could. The first shadow of middle age found her in charge of a model woman's prison in Manhattan...
...years Sister Catherine Konstantinoff, 26, has been a nurse in Alexander Hospital, Sofia. Renowned for herdevotion, her skill, her quiet bedside manner, not long ago she was promoted to ward matron. Sister Catherine is a good Macedonian...