Word: campobello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sorrow." Franklin and Eleanor were a gay and carefree couple. Franklin went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with...
Babs took the children to Campobello for the summers. From Washington, Franklin wrote her hurried notes. From a July 1917 letter: "Last night I thought I heard a burglar and sat at the head of the stairs with the gun for half an hour, but it turned out to be the cat . . ." He visited the fleet and found "things not right . . . due to old lady officers and lack of decision in Department...
After her talk here Mrs. Roosevelt left for Campobello Island, New Brunswick, where she will remain this week...
...Many a listener likes or dislikes programs or passages for reasons all his own. In one program a man strongly approved a scene about President Roosevelt's fight against infantile paralysis because it described the fog at Campobello and he was interested in the weather. A woman liked a soap-opera villain because he always closed the door quietly...
...enlist American students in the struggle against totalitarianism," decided to bring college leaders together to train them for the job. From a list of 80 prominent collegians recommended by college administrators, it picked 32 by means of a history test.* Mrs. Roosevelt invited them to the big, rambling Campobello house, scurried round to collect beds for the 29 boys and girls from 25 colleges who eventually showed up. Each paid a $60 fee for the five-week session...