Word: matronic
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...rare occasions when she goes out, she wears American sports clothes. One of her recent visits was to a women's prison at Bedford Hills, near by, to gather information for use in the reform of China's prison system. There she chatted earnestly with the matron and inmates. Her reading is largely in the field of social reform...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...
...Angeles' county jail last week greying, motherly Mrs. Louise Peete Judson began preparing herself for death. When the matron and her fellow prisoners wept for her, she said: "Don't be troubled, my dears. Death is merely an eventuality in all our lives." They were not comforted : she was so nice, so poised, so kind. But throughout her life, death trailed her like the fragrance of the expensive perfume* she used...
...Rachele Mussolini, plump widow of the Duce. She was caught, along with her two youngest children, a jugful of jewelry and $120,000 cash, by partisans as she sought refuge in Switzerland. The Italians turned her over, as a harmless matron, to U.S. custody...
Beginning with a middle-aged matron and a bit of perplexing gossip, The Deep Mrs. Sykes ends by revealing the key dislocations in half a dozen lives. For all her inscrutable airs and vaunted "intuitions," Carrie Sykes (Catherine Willard) is just a stupid mischief-maker and egoist. When a woman in her cups spills the story that someone has been anonymously sending flowers to a neighborhood bride, Carrie suspects her own husband (Neil Hamilton), but lets the intoxicated woman-who goes haywire with jealousy-imagine it is hers. Actually it is Mrs. Sykes's married son-and gradually there...