Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noctc theatro Agassizo nostrac musca Terentianac feccrunt ct hac nocte iterabunt. Primas partes qui agunt, eis omnibus prisca festivitas ct vis comica. Quorum sunt cum primis nominandi hi duces: illa Magna Mater semper potens semper tranquilla, Thais (Paludis Filum nobile!) et illa cuius nomen perdurum Latine reddere nequeo nympha, Abigail Lewis, comoeda gracilitatis venustac ct aurcac vocis; tunc Sanctus Clarus ct Vadum Fractum et ipse cunuchus nunc tennis nunc fortis, omnes adulescentes maximi animi atque facundissimac libertatis; et deinde noster miles barbatus procellosusque (qui baculum habes) et illc umbraculatus Scotus sive sobrius sive ebrius. Nec non omittendi sunt tu, edax...
Washington has changed immeasurably since 1800, when Abigail Adams left the comforts of Philadelphia to become the first mistress of the presidential mansion, to endure mud streets, the "lies and falsehoods of ... electioneering," and to keep 13 fireplaces going all day "or sleep in wet and dampness." But little more than a year ago, Bess Truman echoed Abigail's discontent. "This is a terrible life," she said. "We don't have any privacy at all. I'll be glad when we get back to Independence and can live like human beings...
This is not to suggest that either Abigail or Bess, or any of the 26 Presidents' wives of the years between, have been completely insensate to the privileges and perquisites of their position, or the bracing effects of power and applause. A few White House wives have enjoyed such heady successes that they left the capital only with the utmost reluctance. But the price of occupancy is always high. Last week, while still technically a private citizen, Mamie Eisenhower was discovering that even public adulation can be an overpowering, if flattering, experience...
Died. Millicent Abigail Rogers, 53, "Standard Oil heiress." granddaughter of Croesus-rich Oil Pioneer Henry Huttleston Rogers; after an operation for removal of a brain blood clot; in Albuquerque. A "best-dressed" society glamour girl of the '20s. Millicent made an unhappy career of marrying in haste, repenting in opulent leisure. Her husbands: 1) penniless Austrian Count Ludwig Constantin Salm (1924-27), 2) dashing Argentine Socialite Arturo Peralta Ramos (1927-35), 3) Manhattan Broker Ronald B. Balcom (1936-41). In later years, she Iived alone on a small New Mexican ranch in the shadow of a sacred Taos Indian...
...Other illustrious descendants of John and Abigail: grandson Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's Civil War minister to the Court of St. James's; great-grandsons Henry Adams and Brooks Adams, historians; great-great-grandson Charles Francis Adams III, yachtsman, banker, and Secretary of the Navy...