Word: bored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President had a halfbrother. James Roosevelt, his father, first married Rebecca Rowland. She bore him one child, a son who was named James Roosevelt Roosevelt. He had a minor diplomatic career, died in 1927. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was not an only child. One brother, Elliott, died in 1893, aged 4. Surviving brother, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, onetime (1930-32) Controller of Detroit, is currently promoting a combination bus and rail...
...marriage is no bed of roses, duty comes before pleasure, wealth is the visible reward of industrious virtue, and honesty the inescapable policy. This Dutch-uncle lecture, and the smart blow of the Burgomaster's gavel with which he knocked the pair down to each other, Juliana & Bernhard bore with placid disregard of how much time was passing, but in the Great Church across the street impatience grew...
English Queen Mary's brother, the Earl of Athlone, Governor of Windsor Castle, bore the delay without appearing bored, but the Duke of Kent, who some years ago was mooted as a bridegroom for Crown Princess Juliana (she was later a bridesmaid at his wedding), fidgeted and fumed with the "shyness" notable in all sons of King George V. A Dutch Cabinet Minister passed around chocolates, and these the Dutch and German guests beamishly consumed. The British would not eat in a Dutch church, as "it isn't done in England," and the shyness of Kent became each...
...Lena Jessie Nelson, who for no apparent reason became known as Nancy. They had two children, were divorced in 1925. Wife No. 2 married a man named Warren E. Baldy of Carson City, Nev., and restless Mr. Ochsner went on to Wife No. 3, Miss Hilda Carling, who bore him one son and remarried a onetime Chicago capitalist named Francis William Hinckley after Ochsner's death...
...show amiably bore out the theme of Anglo-American lese majesty. Called "Romeo and Juliet, 1936," it was played in three scenes, in each of which a stepladder served as the balcony. Scene I was between Juliet du Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below...