Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...every U. S. Senator** and Congressman, his Cabinet, uniformly (with the exception of Madam Secretary Perkins) clothed in turtle coats and striped grey trousers, and in the gallery children straddling laps, surrounded by mittens, rubbers, coats: Diana Hopkins, daughter of Secretary of Commerce Hopkins, the President's grandchildren, Eleanor and Curtis Dall; his uncle, Frederic Delano, his wife, his mother...
...dawntime collision with a parked truck near Berry's Ferry, Va., Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and Ethel du Pont Roosevelt were badly bumped and scratched, he on the arms and forehead, she on the right ear and forehead. Off dashed Mother Eleanor Roosevelt, brought them, not seriously harmed, back to the White House...
...opera, took her to Hollywood, where for six months she crammed dramatics and English, dieted on cottage cheese and skim milk, laid off such Hungarian delights as lekvar (gluey layers of candied noodles). Her first U. S. movie role was a small part in Rosalie, starring Nelson Eddy and Eleanor Powell...
Famed, scholarly, 54-year-old Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, recently began looking for a new president. Its third president, Dr. Marion Edwards Park, will retire a year from next June. Last week it became known that "prominent Bryn Mawr alumnae" want as their fourth president a certain Anna Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Eleanor Roosevelt were asked for a statement of her qualifications for the job, it would be something like this...