1.   In the present relaxed moral climate, there was always a frisky society matron willing to accommodate a discreet young man.

2.   A society matron with homes in New York City, Tuxedo Park, N.Y., and Bar Harbor, Maine, she held rigidly to decorum.

3.   But Rodriguez pursued the case as doggedly as if she had been a society matron.

4.   His famous made-to-order clothes, those fever dreams of excess and luxe, have made him the darling of every society matron in every major American city.

5.   I mean, she behaved like a society matron.

6.   In New York City, society matrons and club kids are sashaying down Fifth Avenue in high-heeled platform shoes and bare legs.

7.   Ms. Richardson, who plays a society matron addicted to laudanum, punctuates her ennui with moments of verbal clarity.

8.   The result in each case was the same -- society matrons and patrons were quickly relegated to the level of the ruffians and made to look foolish.