Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Feature of the evening was a Virginia Reel danced by a party in costume including Newshawks Raymond Clapper, J. Fred Essary, Ulric Bell, Ernest Lindley, Secretary Morgenthau, James Roosevelt and their wives, not to mention Gracie Hall Roosevelt and his sister, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt. The President from his armchair called the changes: "Do-see-do! Down the middle and back again! . . . Swing your partner around to the right." Fledgling newshawks clapped in time to Turkey in the Straw, Dixie and Yankee Doodle. Soon a half-dozen reels, more energetic than polished, were in progress in different parts...
...course of her regular weekly broadcast for Pond's Face Creams last week, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt declared: "I sometimes think that the wife who stays at home and carries on all the work in the household should be paid a definite salary, for she earns it without any question...
Irene and The Joy of Living with Irene Dunne; Stage Door with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers; Victoria the Great with Anton Walbrook and Anna Neagle; and a covey of new celebrities including Joan Fontaine, sister of Warner Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland...
Hispanic Museum contains valued Velazquez, Murillos, Zurbarans and a room full of gaudy murals by Joaquin Soralla, besides numerous sculptures by the Museum's patron, Mrs. Anna Hyatt (Archer M.) Huntington...
...about her personal life as she is loquacious about her system, she seldom refers to her widowhood and never to the significance of the nine-strand collar of pearls which for more than 30 years has been her only ornament. Dr. Mensendieck calls the dancing legs of the late Anna Pavlova monstrously disproportioned. Likewise she scorns Tennist Helen Wills Moody's strong right arm, and Max Schmeling's entire musculature. Says she: "Tennis and basketball players coming down from their leaps resemble the comic stance of a drinking giraffe...