Word: matronly
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...official inspection he usually sees it at its best. Realizing this, canny Governor Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire, when he decided last March to investigate conditions at the Manchester State Industrial School, asylum for 200 delinquent girls, picked a day when he knew that the superintendent and matron would be away. Subsequent unannounced visits convinced the Governor and his witnesses that the Manchester guardians were guilty of unbelievable cruelty toward their charges. On one trip to the school Governor Tobey locked two trustees in the solitary confinement coops provided for inmates. When they were...
Summer Wife. Wanted: pleasant, decorous, middle-aged matron to manage my six-room apartment in Manhattan and comfort me June 15 to Sept. 30, while my wife is away on her needless summer vacation. Children no objections. Businessman (address deleted...
...same golfer, apparently afflicted with overall elephantiasis-pointed the appalling moral.* Meanwhile, in England, precisely the same technique was being employed in the advertising of Kensitas cigarets. Here was pictured a slender and attractive girl, casting the shadow of a not only multichinned but also more than amply-bosomed matron. Like Lucky copy, Kensitas copy used the "avoid that future shadow' slogan. No plagiarism was involved, however, as Kensitas is made by J. Wix & Son. Ltd.. an American Tobacco Co. subsidiary...
Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...
Nina Henry, fair, slim, 40, has just bought her first Paris dress. It makes her husband uneasy, herself unusually alluring, other men unusually allured. At a party at the country club she almost forgets she is the mother of two grown children, a respectable matron in a small U. S. town. When she meets Chalke Ewing, a Cuban sugar planter who hates the U. S., the expatriate brother of her best friend, she does forget herself, falls in love with him, and lures him into spending the night with her. But she has him only to lose him; he goes...