Word: martha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East aoth Street in Manhattan on Oct. 27, 1858, a calm evening that followed days of strong northeast wind and record tides. His father, Theodore Roosevelt, a merchant-banker, of a Dutch family famous for seven generations in New York philanthropy, was a "Lincoln Republican." His mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, was a Georgia-bred secessionist. One of T.R.'s first memories was about how he cheered for the Union and about how he would cheer even louder to reply to his mother's discipline. One night at family prayers Theodore fervently appealed to the Lord of Hosts...
...comedy about Newton Reece (Ralph Meeker), 39, married, commuter, on the rise with United Foods, who one day, tired of it all, throws up his job. He goes home to Connecticut with no future plans beyond Do-It-Yourselfing in a chair and making love to his wife (Martha Scott) in the daytime. He also tries his hand at baking brownies, urges a drab, neglected neighbor's wife to turn slinky, encourages a job-weary laundryman to rebel, gets a lady writer to turn soulful. When the boss (amusingly played by John McGiver) comes after him. he agrees...
Election of new SGA officers is scheduled for Feb. 27 and 28. Candidates for president are Jean Cronin '59, Cynthia Morss '59, and Gail Worshofsky '59. Campaigning for vice-president are Patricia Marx '59, Martha Mayo '59, and Nancy Proger...
...most viewed the change favorably. "We'll have a woman president by 1960," crooned suffragette leader Martha E. Miller '59. "It was merely a logical extension of our editorial stand," observed Robert H. Sand '58. "Action speaks louder than words, you know...
...into trouble, growing increasingly "out of touch with the realities of society and of his fellow men." Progoff notes that the author of The Cloud seems to have had considerable harassment from extraverts; he advised his readers to pay no attention to such carping and reminded them of Martha's irritation with contemplative Mary, who, said Jesus, had "chosen the best part...