Word: aren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well," Mrs. Farley answered, "you're the President, aren't you? All you have to do is tell them you won't run." Roosevelt blinked...
...White House. Never was I invited to spend the night in the historic mansion. Only twice did I make a cruise on the Presidential yacht. . . . Never was I asked to join intimate White House gatherings. . . . Mrs. Roosevelt once said: 'Franklin finds it hard to relax with people that aren't his social equals.' I took this remark to explain my being out of the infield...
What Beulah needed, Adela decided, was her mother: "Someone who could say to her, 'Louise . . . you ought not to sit there in a bright, striped blue-green dress with your arms bare to the shoulder . . . your arms aren't your best point . . . they look too strong...
...clippings. He scribbles swift notes on them and stuffs them into his pocket for delivery to his editors. For an hour he strolls Cantigny's gardens and rolling fields (now mostly idle). He has given up riding: "Can't get a groom, dammit," he complains. "There just aren't any good grooms any more...
...Francisco shipping magnate, Matt Talbot, didn't die the natural death people supposed he did: he was done in by his wife and her lover (Claire Luce* and Donald Cook). Then it quickly lets the murderers know, by means of a taunting anonymous letter, that they aren't quite getting away with it: someone is hep to their deed...