Word: matronly
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...grounds." Ostentation was the order of the day in certain circles--when tavern-owner Andrew Belcher died in 1717, his estate bore the cost of 96 pairs of kid gloves and 50 suits of mourning made expressly for the funeral. And during the Revolutionary War, a Tory German matron threw a birthday part in honor of George III. Cantabrigians could hardly keep their temper at that affront, so they surrounded the house in "silent, non-violent protest...
...what else?-reading. Postal Carrier Wendell Brown emerges blinking at the cover of Louis L'Amour's The Burning Hills and waits for his wife Pat, who steps out bearing another L'Amour, The Lonely Men. Says Pat: "I got it for him." A well-fed matron waddles off with the Joy of Cooking...
Fifty years ago, on a hot, muggy day in mid-June, about 200 young women filed into Agassiz Hall, their long white dresses peeking through their black robes as they marched to their seats. At the graduation rehearsal earlier that morning, Ethelind Elbert Austin '30 recalls, one of the matrons had informed the anxious group of Radcliffe seniors that, after eating some spoiled dormitory food the previous evening, serveral young women had been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates...
Many people supported Carter's decision to impose economic sanctions on the Soviet Union after its invasion into Afghanistan. For instance, a middle-aged Cambridge matron said, "It beats drafting...
...also a "modern Mormon matron" who, while not having been excommunicated or agreeing with Mrs. Johnson about the ERA, has felt the heavy hand, with which church leaders control the members. I do not think of the Mormon leadership as a particularly savage group. I would rather classify their attitude as plain run-of-the-mill misogyny...