Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House luncheon table one day last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt faced a plain, rather grim little woman who spoke only Russian. Officially the two were equals. The guest was young Paulina Semionova Zhemchuzhina, wife of President Molotov of the Council of People's Commissars of the U. S. S. R., a position technically but by no means actually outranking Joseph Stalin's rank of Secretary-General of the Communist Party. Furthermore, Mme Molotov is herself founder and head of the Soviet cosmetics trust, Tezhe, which last year turned back to the State a profit...
...European reputation she had deserved a Metropolitan hearing several years ago. There were those in the audience who remembered her sensational concert debut in 1923,when she appeared in Carnegie Hall as a plump, glossy-haired girl of 19, an unknown suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception of a few strained top notes there was little fault to find. Surprise was to see her appear...
...husband who had not had a job since the War. three growing children. Most of her family, most of her friends thought Claudia a wonder, gave her their admiring pity for being such a cheerful martyr. But women are hard to fool about women. Her partner Sal, her sister Anna saw through Claudia. One of her daughters was beginning...
Claudia had been a bossy girl, a domineering young woman. She had never forgiven her sister Anna for breaking away, marrying a rich husband and going her own gait. She had bought a country place she could not really afford, because it was her childhood home, and she secretly wanted her children to be molded into her shape. Claudia prided herself on being a modern mother, and most of all on her absolute honesty. She loved to analyze herself before others, invite and apparently accept criticism of her infallible conduct-and then go on exactly as before...
Fourth ball in which the President had a special interest was that attended by his mother (in black), his daughter Anna (in flame) and his son James in white tie & tails. With 3,500 other Manhattanites they paid $5 a head to dine, dance and see a pageant at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Not only were the President's favorite tunes, The Yellow Rose of Texas, Anchors Aweigh, Home on the Range, played by special appointment to the White House, but the celebrants enjoyed the President's favorite food to the extent of 7,000 scrambled eggs. Crowning...