Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Eleanor Roosevelt] is . . .a wonderful woman. And marvelously helpful and full of sympathy. . . . She bothered us more on our jobs in Washington to take care of the poor little nobodies . . . than all the rest of the people down there put together. She's always sending me a note to have some little Susie Glotz to tea at the Embassy...
...brilliant white flares, and Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park, first third-term President of the U. S., came out on the stone porch to joke with his friends. All day he had been jovially confident. That morning after voting (No. 292) at the town hall, accompanied by Wife Eleanor and Mother Sara, he had wisecracked with persistent New York News Photographer Sammy Shuman. Shuman: "Will you wave at the trees, Mr. President?" Roosevelt: "Go climb a tree." Shuman: "Please." Roosevelt: "You know I never wave at trees unless they have leaves on them." Now he said to the villagers...
...STATION WAGON MURDER-Milton Propper- Harper ($2). Extortion is loose among Philadelphia's summering socialites and the body of Mrs. Eleanor Munson is found stabbed, in a station wagon. Trollop or no, Mrs. M. had a history that took Detective Tommy Rankin hotfoot to the scene of an adulterous Maryland tryst...
...President (like his brother, jailed as a C. O. in World War I), conducted its first New York public test tribunal for youthful dissenters. Questions put included such traditional pacifist posers as "Did not Jesus whip the money-changers out of the temple?" As the nation went, so went Eleanor Roosevelt. Turning on her old friends, the American Youth Congress and the American Newspaper Guild, for their "claptrap" talk decrying the draft, she offered up her four strapping sons, should the country need them-like Cornelia, who had no jewels to give for Rome but her sons, the Gracchi. From...
...many, considering the fact that all musical revues are fated to bore some people some of the time. In these times of stress, too, Ed Wynn usually wanders on the stage of his friend, Mr. Shubert, and saves the act with an ice-cream oil slicker or his eyebrows. Eleanor Roosevelt is sure to like...