Word: matronly
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...Dolwyn," but is also co-starred as Lord Lancashire's agent in charge of buying out the landowners of the village. In all three capacities he has performed sensitively and perhaps even poetically for three-quarters of the picture. His conclusion, however, in which an almost saintly village matron releases the floodgates of a dam to inundate her beloved Dolwyn, seems incredibly out of keeping with the rest of the picture. The matron, nevertheless, is almost always a believable and winning person, played with great tenderness by Dame Edith Evans...
...shiny-nosed household drudge, bored and burdened with a husband who doesn't understand her. Escaping rebelliously, she becomes a cynical tart with a burlesque strut. Finally, having double-crossed her way onto the lap of an underworld titan, she acquires all the graces of a society matron. Along the way, Joan proves the undoing of four tall, handsome men, including Kent Smith, an honest but weak accountant, and David Brian, a pseudo-respectable gangland big shot with a taste for Etruscan vases...
Last week, 47-year-old Arthur Stanley Talbott told the Los Angeles Advertising Club the results of his survey on "How to Open Women's Purses.." Certain words in ads and sales talks are "repulsive" to women, he said. Examples: habit, bra, leathery, sticky, parched, calisthenics, crust, matron, clingy, model. Good sales words, which "appeal to women's hearts, emotions and vanities": poise, charm, graciousness, dainty, twinkle, hope, blush, bloom, bachelor, crisp, fairness, garden...
Correspondent Jones also reported a conversation he overheard at a recent social gathering. An American living in Rome was giving another middle-aged American matron her opinion of the "disgraceful" way TIME had written about one of her favorite foreign politicians. "I think TIME ought to be barred," she said. "I wouldn't know about that," her friend replied. "I just don't bother to read TIME." "Well," said the first lady, "if you read it every week like...
...three small rooms behind the cathedral. Finally the dean took steps to evict her. "This is no job for a woman," he said. "Of her six girls, two are practically young women now. The sensible thing is to force her to leave." Said a young Lima matron: "The dean is right. Her daughters are pretty and that is likely to make people talk." At week's end, after receiving a cash indemnity, the lady bellringer was turned out of her rooms. Said Felicitas : "It is el destino. And when that is against you, you can cry yourself blind...