Word: whiting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Long before Christmas, four neat little potted cedars were placed on either side of the White House front door. The "public" Christmas tree, a ten-foot Norwegian spruce glistening with artificial snow and icicles, was set up in the East Room before the broad French windows. On wintery Washington evenings the old house looked like something on a Christmas card-its white expanse gleaming in the shadows, the mellow, warm light from its windows shining through the ancient, weatherbeaten oaks and maples. Poinsettias replaced the ferns in the hallways; wreaths of spruce and pine cones appeared in the windows...
...quiet week in the White House. Each night from the tower of Epiphany Church, the bells rang out: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing. At a reception for the members of the Supreme Court the President, cheered after his cruise, cheerfully greeted the Justices. It was quiet compared with the gathering last year, when Frank Murphy, just appointed to the Court, was the lion of the week, and the talk buzzed of the new appointments that had put James Cromwell in Canada and Robert Jackson in the Department of Justice...
Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands was a house guest at the White House for several days, during which the Princess visited Mount Vernon with Mrs. Roosevelt (Said she: "Why, there are no cupboards in the rooms ! Where did they hang their clothes?"). The Princess was given an ovation at a National Symphony concert in Constitution Hall, attended Mrs. Roosevelt's press conference, and, as an amateur camera enthusiast, calmly took photographs of the newscameramen snapping pictures...
SHELLEY - Newman Ivey White -Knopf (2 vols...
...biographers and critics had a good year, led in interest by Van Wyck Brooks's New England: Indian Summer and in weight by Newman Ivey White's ten-pound, two-volume Shelley. It was the year of a posthumous volume by Mark Twain. The one volume of great poetry was not a new poet's, but the last work of W. B. Yeats...