Word: matronly
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...drop dead of a heart attack. On Studio One, Gaby Rodgers was murdered before the show went on the air, but got her chance to act the fiery temptress in a series of foot-stamping flashbacks. On the U.S. Steel Hour, Gertrude Berg played a slightly touched matron whose relatives weuld not believe that she talked on the phone every Sunday to her dead husband. Climax! offered a double dose of misery: both Sylvia Sidney and Diana Lynn suffered and suffered because they chose careers instead of settling for marriage and babies. But the ladies shared some of the week...
...look, and when he got back to Forest at tea time, the whole student body began buzzing with the glorious tales he told. The first thing old Bumblie did when he got to Marlborough, he said, was to address the entire school, masters and all. Then he sacked the matron ("She's a bit of a stinker, it seems"). After that, he gave the headmaster a terrific wigging for overworking the boys. To top it all off, he said he was going to declare an extra day's holiday around Christmas. "What a rogue," said the boys...
...than a spiritual shell. Echoing his nihilism is a chorus of earnest buffoons: a Prussian millionaire who yearns to be an ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early 1914, just before the outbreak of World...
...stock characters, and with hairline precision asserts a small but significant dissent from the stock notions of them. She disconcerts the common sentimental concept of blindness with the story of a rough, tough old horse dealer gone blind, who finds himself isolated and bewildered in a "home," where the matron refuses to read him the racing news. In the predictable tensions of the novelette-a middle-aged headmaster takes a teen-age cousin into his home, over the jealous opposition of his elegant, childless wife-Author Taylor finds unpredictable perceptions. The prose is studded with jeweled vignettes, e.g., the school...
...graphic reminder to drive carefully even when the life you save may not be your own. On the highways of a town called Center City, one car plows into another at 50 miles an hour. Score: one dead, one severely injured. The guilty party, a 200-lb., iron-willed matron, promptly sues the other driver (a young millionaire) for $300,000 on grounds that disfiguring injuries have ruined her daughter's budding career as a beauty queen and TV star. But two unexpected witnesses make depositions to set things right. Author Pratt lays on the human gore and displays...