Word: eda
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...bright and eager wife, Eda V. Seltzer (who supplies much of the push in the family), kept her schoolteaching job in Denver right up until her husband was transferred to Washington in 1944 (as associate administrator of the Farm Security Administration). Life among the high officials, diplomats and cocktail-sippers of the capital has not damaged the Brannans' pronounced, almost frugal, simplicity. Brannan's conversation is still punctuated by "Lordy" and "gosh," and an occasional ungrammatical "he don't." He and Eda Brannan live in a plain, two-room Washington apartment, with no children and no servant...