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...bold in setting down his often acid-etched opinions of the court and his colleagues. A former law clerk of Douglas' who has seen the early drafts describes some of the Justice's comments about his brethren as "incredibly nasty. They read like something that Alice Roosevelt Longworth would have written...
Alice Roosevelt Longworth...
When Alice Roosevelt Longworth died last week at 96, Washington remembered her as a woman of great charm and elegance. It remembered her glittering marriage to House Speaker Nicholas Longworth and her years as the capital's reigning grande dame. But most of all it remembered the malicious wit that prompted her to keep in her upstairs sitting room a pillow embroidered with the message, "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here...
...Longworth may indeed have been the most caustic critic of Washington celebrities in her own long lifetime. A sampler...
DIED. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 96, T.R.'s irreverent eldest daughter and tart-tongued "princess" of Potomac society; in Washington, D.C. (see NATION...