Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornelia Elizabeth Bryce Pinchot and Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, by suggesting they be tied together over a clothesline, like cats...
...every man is king and nobody is a millionaire, but successful writers are sitting pretty. Next to Maxim Gorky the Soviet author with the most thronelike seat is Alexei Tolstoi. Distantly related to the late great Leo (Anna Karenina), he enjoys a national success surpassing his great namesake...
...ambitious two-year Emergency Peace Campaign. In its first year the campaign plans to spend between $500,000 and $1,000,000, of which it has raised $150,000. Acting as treasurer of the campaign is the American Friends Service Committee, that fortunate Quaker board to which Mrs. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt has given the $90,000 proceeds of her radio talks. Mrs. Roosevelt will help the campaign when it opens on April 21 by joining in a radio program with its star speaker, stubble-cheeked old George Lansbury, British Laborite, who will tour 20 U. S. cities during April...
Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (My Day) from Hyde Park, N. Y.: "At noon Anna and I went coasting. First we both used the same sled, which broke through the crust and landed us both head first in the snow. After this experience we coasted on separate sleds...
...month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...