Word: betsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newton Joseph P. Burke Ann Corcoren, Cambridge Henry D. Burnham Elvine Richard, Hewlit, Long Island Chadwick R. Byer Shirley Saxe, Brookline Winthrop L. Carter Diana Fraser, Cambridge William E. Chambers Mitzl Berardi, Cleveland Frederick H. Chatfield Nancy Vogel, Brookline Robert Franklin Chick Dorothy Folk, Brooklyn Edward S. Cholmeley-Jones Betsey Saches, Chestnut Hill Alphonse F. Cifrino Rosamonde Piotti, Dorchester Jesse F. Cleveland Patricia Bammann, Norfolk, Va. Melton D. Cole Anne Eastman, New York Lovat F. Cooper-Ellis Susan Chapin, Brookline Bruce Crawford Fanny Hardon, New York George C. Cunningham Alexandra Matz, Brookline Fellowes Davis Leslie Morgan, Brookline Robert T. Davis...
...rest. He hates vacations, spends his day at the New Haven Hospital. In the evenings he plays backgammon with kindly, sociable Mrs. Cushing. His greatest relaxation is playing with his two little granddaughters, Sarah Delano (age seven) and Kate (age three), the children of his charming, blue-eyed daughter Betsey (Mrs. James Roosevelt). Social affairs he has always detested. Mrs. Cushing tells a story of how she once tricked him into going to a coming-out party. As they drove up to the hotel, he saw what he was in for, marched into the revolving doors, marched around, marched...
...years old last week and Franklin Roosevelt, as President, was six. Tanned and beaming after his cruise with the fleet, he went from the train that brought him from Charleston, S. C., to the White House to put on his cutaway. Then with his wife, mother, daughter-in-law Betsey (Mrs. Jimmy) and Naval Aide Dan J. Callaghan he went to his front-row pew in St. John's Church, where Rector Oliver J. Hart III conducted a special anniversary service and prayed...
...time he finally got his diploma from Harvard James Roosevelt had followed another Roosevelt tradition, of marrying young. In choosing blonde, sapphire-eyed Betsey Gushing, whom he met at a dance in Boston, James made what is probably his best decision to date...
Second daughter of Boston's famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing, Betsey quickly became Franklin Roosevelt's favorite daughter-in-law. Not so rich as Franklin Jr.'s bride, Ethel du Pont, nor so young as John's fiancee Anne Clark, nor so athletic as Elliott's second wife, Ruth Googins, Betsey Roosevelt, nevertheless, combines virtues of all three. The serenity of the James Roosevelts' home life is pleasing to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who have had more than their share of domestic troubles with their progeny. Betsey calls her husband "Rosie...