Word: matronly
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...fare. Pausing briefly to glance at Tokyo's famed Thunder Gate, one group of 40 plunged into the Japanese capital's shopping district followed by a truck in which to carry their purchases back to the Imperial Hotel. One persistent matron spotted a decorative street lantern erected by the city in honor of the Cherry Festival. "I want that," she demanded, collaring a nearby shopkeeper. "I did not want to offend her," said the helpless Japanese, "but I could not sell her a municipal street decoration. After a moment, she gave me a look of unutterable disgust...
...hypnosis, long the refuge of quacks and magicians, is once more acknowledged to have some valuable uses in psychiatry. A few weeks later, Cartoonist Dallis had Dr. Rex pitted against an artful con man named Landros, who was practicing hypnotism for his own evil purposes on a wealthy young matron. In the course of snagging the villain and turning him over to the law, Dr. Rex gives his readers a cautionary capsule on the value of hypnosis, and why only qualified physicians should make...
Skin eruptions on the hands are responsible for much misery, and for a big share of a dermatologist's practice nowadays. In the A.M.A.'s Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, two doctors identify the typical patient: "A young matron, who must keep house, cook, wash dishes, do the laundry, raise her children, and hold her husband [and] whose occupation is inherently one of the most hazardous with which the dermatologist commonly has to deal...
Down the Line. The spearhead of next week's invasion will be the lady. Amiable and easygoing, King Paul is as strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) a monarch as any society matron could wish for. Frederika, his 5-ft. 3-in. Queen, whose trim figure and impudent face are topped by an unruly mop of chestnut curls, was once described (to her face) by a U.S. Congressman in his cups as "the cutest little Queenie I ever...
...were transplanting New England to the Northwest. But though many a New Englander followed them, Portland persisted in developing a tone of its own. In 1851, for instance, the stumps in downtown streets were whitewashed to keep late (and often unsteady) pedestrians from tripping over them. An early Portland matron startled the populace with a carriage robe made of the breast feathers of 144 canvasback ducks. And Portland's pioneer St. Charles Hotel boasted a lock on every door and a hand-knitted wrapper on every chamber...