Word: matronly
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...Once it was three wonderful months of clambakes and necking," a matron remembers wistfully. "The boys just had a good time and the girls helped them have it. Now they've all got to be off somewhere doing something." "Everybody has a summer job here at U.C.L.A.," says Recent Grad John Wilkinson. "Anybody can just go to school," explains his friend Jeff Donfeld. "Now the prestigious thing to say is I go to school and I work in summer.' " Williams College Chaplain John Eusden describes the phenomenon as "a new, near-missionary zeal - very contagious. The students...
...then it was all over. "That's it," announced Rose, whereupon the lights went up and the audience broke into a torrent of applause. Then everybody lined up to shake-as one greying matron put it -"the hand that rocked the cradle of the President...
...rodeo. But there in U.S.-style blue jeans was Princess Anne, 12, all set to watch Daddy play in a polo tournament at Windsor. By contrast, Queen Elizabeth, 37, scorning matched mother-and-daughter garb, looked uncommonly chic, as crisply turned out as any young matron of the Virginia horsy set. Both appeared less concerned with fashion than with Prince Philip's chances. No problem, though. His team won a smashing victory...
Like a Tiger. Dowdy and bespectacled, her greying hair askew, Janet Rosenberg Jagan looks more like a suburban matron than an impassioned leftist in a disturbed colony of 600,000 people on South America's northeast coast. But she was a fire brand Young Communist Leaguer in Chicago long before Cheddi came on the scene to study dentistry at Northwestern in the late 19305. She hit it off with the ever-smiling East Indian, and when they returned as a married couple to British Guiana, Cheddi was making angry speeches condemning foreign "oppressors" and spouting the Marxist line. Wherever...
...Stripper. To compound the fib implied in the title, Producer Jerry Wald has hauled a matron named Gypsy Rose Lee into a few scenes at the beginning of this screen version of William Inge's 1959 play, A Loss of Roses. Fortunately, Gypsy does not strip; wearisomely, neither does anyone else. But Joanne Woodward gets guillotined...