Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson was reading an early edition of her Washington Times-Herald. She called her office. Said Cissie: "Martha Blair bores me - kill the column." So pressmen ripped open the forms, jerked out These Charming People by Martha Blair, a column about Washington's social stratosphere...
...Hampshire-born Constance Warren (Vassar '04) has the manner and bearing of Eleanor Roosevelt : gracious, tall, long-legged, she strides smiling about her small, garden-like campus, on rainy days wears a long military cape. Famed is her habit of drowsing on the platform during lectures by visiting bigwigs. In her book last week President Warren sounded off in brisk, layman's language. Some Warrenisms...
...Roosevelt's 58th birthday last week, 25,000 parties were held throughout the U. S. Their collective gift: an estimated $1,500,000 for the Roosevelt fund to aid victims of infantile paralysis. Biggest & brightest of all was the party at Washington's Hotel Mayflower, where beaming Eleanor Roosevelt plunged a knife into a big, red, white & blue cake. But just before Mrs. Roosevelt cut into the cake, the President cut into the Wagner health bill...
Main confessions in Life's a Circus concern Lady Eleanor's makeshift life. Tame boarding school was relieved somewhat by frequent transfers, midnight escapes, one harum-scarum period in the family of a Belgian baron, when she turned a pack of Irish wolfhounds loose in the crowded ball room of the British Embassy...
...picturesque adventures (naughty but never nasty), Lady Eleanor's most colorful acquaintance was her reckless, extravagant, vain, arrogant, sentimental, witty father. From the one chapter she gives to him, a reader must conclude that he was an even more picturesque throwback to Bathsheba than his daughter, and that she would have done better writing his biography than...