Word: matronly
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...their select caverns of safety, the cool bars of the Excelsior and Ambasciatori Hotels. There waiters whisked tables and chairs from the sidewalk cafés and clanged down the corrugated iron shutters, which did not come up again for two days. In the Excelsior bar an American matron twittered: "Oh, I saw it all-rocks flying and sticks coming down on heads, bang-bang-bang. It was so exciting!" A spade-bearded Italian gentleman, ordering another vermouth and ice, said: "This would never have happened in the old days...
...Handsome Jim Harron, a well-paid New York publicity man, is unnerved, then regenerated, by the crime and a visit to the victim's father. The effect on Harron is to make him see that he must return to his estranged wife. ¶ Fan French, an idle Westchester matron, is thrilled to realize that she had been accosted by the murderer before the crime. The upshot for her: unsatisfactory adultery with a radio announcer. ¶A young, mentally unbalanced, would-be writer is stimulated by the newspaper stories to desire to duplicate the crime. ¶ A little Manhattan girl...
After a long chat with a suburban matron of our acquaintance who does content analysis, we agreed that the similarity between The New Yorker and this so-called Lampoon is more than coincidental--it seems to be premeditated. The matron thought the cartoons an especially fine indication of the imitation and though we feel handicapped trying to describe drawings that are better appreciated visually, we can say that the resemblances are striking and the technique, little short of flawless...
These women, a young one and an old one, keep alive by displaying to visitors who look as if they would pay for the privilege a letter from George Gordon, Lord B. The play shows a crude Matron from Milwaukee and her setted husband enjoying, but not paying for, the privilege. The play ends on a flat and irrelevant imputation that the younger lady is none other than Lord Byron's granddaughter...
...woman she was not bad," the matron said. "All of us liked her. One could never guess she was a famous...