Word: aster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early New Deal days Franklin Roosevelt cruised about on Vincent Aster's palatial Nourmahal. Then he acquired the Sequoia, switched to the Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...
Emmanuel d'Aster de la Vigerie, Interior Commissioner, spoke openly of U.S. and British fears that arming France would lead to uncontrollable revolution...
British Broadcasting Corp. announced that on Lord & Lady Aster's estate, Cliveden in Buckinghamshire (headquarters of the much publicized "Cliveden Set"), a 600-bed hospital was being built to accommodate Canadians wounded in the war which all the Cliveden set's appeasement did not prevent...
City editor of the New York Herald Tribune for seven sparkling years, author of a rapid-fire book of reminiscences called Mrs. Aster's Horse, frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Stanley Walker was a name to make any publisher's cheeks glow with satisfaction...