Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second and third acts, the characters are no longer types, of any description, and Schary intricately weaves the problems of F.D.R.'s drive to return despite his mother's insistence on an invalid squirearchy, of Eleanor Roosevelt's development as an individual, and of their daughter Anna's own growth as a person...
...Married. Eleanor Steber, 41, clarion-voiced dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera; and Major Gordon Guelberth Andrews, 39, faculty member at the U.S. Army's Information School, Fort Slocum, N.Y.; both for the second time; at Fort Slocum...
...affable monarch returned to Manhattan for a reunion with his daughters, a jaunt up to West Point (where as chief of a state he granted a traditional amnesty to all cadets undergoing punishments), an evening at the Metropolitan Opera (Bohème), plus an invitation to tea with Eleanor Roosevelt and a good prospect of being awfully tired all over again before he gets back to sunny Morocco...
...failed to gain election to the most elite club--the Porcellian--despite the fact that his cousin Theodore had been a member. A scandal involving one of his cousins may have hurt his chances. But whatever the reason for his rejection, it was a serious blow to him. Eleanor Roosevelt thought it gave him an inferiority complex and led him to become more democratic...
Despite his social activities, F.D.R. was no ladies' man. But his love for Eleanor Roosevelt would appeal to any romance magazine. Eleanor had an unhappy childhood. She loved her warm-hearted, weak...