Word: matronly
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...Milwaukee, when police arrested her for shoplifting, learned after a brief search that she was stark naked under her coat, 23-year-old Lois Johnson explained to a matron that she wore only the coat because she didn't have a clean dress...
...Reluctant Debutante (by William Douglas Home) is the latest smart trifle from London, where it has been a hit for over a year. In a succession of glossy costume changes, it tells of a determined society matron's efforts to find a gilt-edged husband for her uncooperative debutante daughter, while the girl herself falls in love with a cad. In one of those splendid reversals of the seeming truth, the shakoed young palace guardsman whom Mother favors proves morally unworthy of such exalted employment, while the handsome cad emerges not only a verray parfit gentil knight...
...theater-the small, intimate, mostly humorous opera. First came Gertrude Stem's In a Garden, with music by Manhattan's Meyer Kupferman, a Steinishly childlike spoof on royalty that was the success of the evening. ("Redolent, that's the word for the music," approved one Edinburgh matron. "It was the essence of nostalgia.") Next came Sweet Betsy from Pike, by Manhattan's Mark Bucci, a horsy mock-western. The bill closed with The Pot of Fat, by Massachusetts' Theodore Chanler, a Grimm parable about a cat and mouse who married and then found out about...
...lackluster Republican Senator John Marshall Butler has the right of way. Last week Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, Maryland's Democratic kingpin, sifted through the roster for a glad Tydings substitute, listed as one contender none other than Millard Tydings's wife, Society Matron Eleanor Davies Tydings...
...splendid as The Bronx can afford. Father Borgnine, a taxi driver, seeing the savings of 15 years vanish in an orgy of limousines, caviar and wedding receptions, roars like a wounded bull elephant. Debbie's best friend .blubbers her tragedy-with her husband unemployed, she cannot afford the matron of honor's gown. Appalled by these developments, Debbie and her fellow revert to Plan 1. They get married quietly; Father Borgnine is free to invest his nest egg in a taxi, and Bette Davis becomes rather suddenly and magically reconciled to a life she hates...