Word: mayoress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World So Fair." Over soggy Berlin, the roar of the planes continued. The City Assembly heard it when, led by tough little Mayoress Louise Schroeder, it defied the Russians and sent an appeal for intervention to the U.N. Communist Boss Wilhelm Pieck heard it when he told party leaders that they must fight the "infection" of diversionist elements. "In the last three weeks," cried Pieck, "you have lost all the popularity you have gained in the last three years." And the children heard the sound, and feared it, for it stirred memories of bombings not so long ago-children like...
...Strangled City. The two immaculately uniformed Russian officers stared down expressionlessly from their high official bench at the small woman in navy blue who spoke to the assembly. She was Berlin's Mayoress, grey-haired, matronly, bespectacled Louise Schroeder; and her hands gripped the rostrum firmly. She attacked the restrictions on transportation within Berlin and on the shipment of packages to the Western zones. Prosaic issues? Yes-but they involved orders of the Russian occupying army...
...black-hatted, dapper Deputy Under Secretary for the Dominions Sir John Stephenson, and tall Frederic Hudd, Canada's Acting High Commissioner in Britain. Behind them came Southampton civic dignitaries, led by the wife of the city's ailing Lord Mayor, Job Charles Dyas. Primly the Lady Mayoress recited a prepared speech of thanks for clothing that Canada had sent to the city during the blitz...
...which presumably refers to the fact that Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer once made a successful romance called Love Affair (1939), and are now at it once more. It can hardly refer to the present picture. Its story is a skittish, moderately ribald frappé about a small-town mayoress (Miss Dunne), her father-in-law (Charles Coburn), and a sculptor (Mr. Boyer) who remodels her career...
Father-in-Law Coburn is of the opinion that there are better things for a handsome widow to do than fill her dead husband's political and social boots; when his prim housekeeper asks what, he replies, "I'm afraid you wouldn't remember." Mayoress Dunne begins uneasily to suspect that the old man is right when, in Manhattan, she meets the man who is to make the damaged statue of her husband as good as new. Sculptor Boyer follows her home and sets up shop in the garage. Before long Miss Dunne's infatuated stepdaughter...