Word: matronly
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Jessie's TV Notebook (Tues. 12:30 p.m., ABC-TV) features Jessie De Both, a veteran of newspaper cooking pages, who sports high-fashion hats while up to her elbows in flour, and wears the determinedly jolly air of a police matron speeding a departing inmate. When not badgering stray males from the studio audience by tying skillets to their shirttails, Jessie hammers home the virtues of her sponsoring products. Sample kitchen hint: don't sew up your turkey after stuffing it, use safety pins...
When it was over, the audience gurgled like a bunch of doting mothers. Gushed one matron: "Angels-all of them!" Director Caso had polished the Arizona Boys Chorus well. They were as well disciplined as paratroopers. And their voices, like their faces, were shiny and pure...
...this, the tourists seemed to think, was fully worth the price of three guineas. "Delicious boys," said an English matron. "Enchanting," said an American grandmother. Added a cautious Finnish gentleman: "It was verry different...
...buxom, pretty matron spoke up very clearly in the quiet Manhattan federal courtroom. Calmly, Mrs. David Greenglass, mother of two small children, told court and jury some of the incidents of her domestic life. She told how, in 1945, when she was living in Albuquerque, she and her husband had a visit from a man named Harry Gold. The incident was to set the Greenglasses apart forever from their fellow citizens in the U.S. They delivered to Gold some atomic information stolen from the secret atomic project at Los Alamos, where Sergeant David Green-glass was stationed...
...wooden baton-waver (in fact, he usually leads from the drums), Bruno gets deep into the act, taking his place in the conga line, occasionally even cutting in on couples dancing past. Gurgled one fat Florentine matron after a round with the master in the Posso di Beatrice, a cellar nightclub in a 13th Century palace: "This Bruno makes me feel like a five-year...