Word: bulloch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After attending a debutante party and getting to bed at 4 a. m., 20-year-old Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt Jr., grandson of the late President, heard that he had been chosen a Rhodes Scholar from the New England district. The scholarship board called him one of the most unusual students ever to win a scholarship. Scholar Roosevelt is completing the regular four-year course at Harvard in three years, reads 13 languages (English, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Icelandic, German, Gaelic, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, Russian, Middle High German...
...Archibald Bulloch (1729-77) of Savannah, famed Georgia Revolutionist, was a maternal ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt, hence also of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and of Franklin Roosevelt's children. *Never a professional, Actor Smith won gold and silver medals for oratory while in St. James' Parish School, appeared in most of the parish dramatic club's plays. His favorite part: Congressman Bardwell Slote in The Almighty Dollar...
Author Wister had told how President Roosevelt a quarter-century ago visited an old southern city (his mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a fine old Georgia family) where an ambitious hostess contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves...