Word: annas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week there were no changes in these traditional plans. But the mood of Christmas 1940 was different-in the White House as in many another U. S. home. For the first time the children were scattered-Anna stayed in Seattle, James on the Pacific Coast, John in Boston. Elliott, traveling for the Army, could not get to Washington. Only Franklin Jr., his wife and Franklin Roosevelt III, aged 2½, were on hand as in the past. There were only two children to hang their stockings on the mantelpiece in the President's bedroom-Franklin III and Harry...
...printed his card to his mother with all the Ns right side up, the Ss turned the right way around, and asking for "some little boats." So it was through the Christmas seasons during the '30's, when they all trooped to the White House-James, Anna, John, Elliott, Franklin Jr., "Sistie" and "Buzzie" Dall, the in-laws, and, as the one-woman embodiment of all the Roosevelt traditions, the President's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt...
...Schafer needed a good quotation. That very day Mrs. Anna Weber, of Queens, was getting a judgment against him for $2,500 she said she had lent him and which he had never repaid. Next day a line of ladies began to march into the Attorney General's office with circumstantial stories of how "the money comes...
...Nanette (RKO Radio). This resurrection of a 1925 musicomedy features ex-Chorine Anna Neagle, who rose to fame after her appearances in British films. Unfortunately, the Empire touch has passed lightly over just the asset of No, No, Nanette which pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...
...Sculpture by Anna Sten (Nana) and Vincent Price (Victoria Regina...