Word: cats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still relishes jokes and wisecracks. He can still drop off for a cat nap anywhere, anytime. He still looks forward to a nightly old-fashioned or two in his study before dinner as a high point of his day. He has grown almost impervious to political criticism. He rarely becomes angry at all-and then it is usually when somebody snipes at him through one of his children. The four Roosevelt sons in service help explain the President's great sensitiveness to the casualty lists-always the first thing he asks about when told of a battle.* That sensitiveness...
...wife, Sir Harry's 19-year-old daughter Nancy, and his friend, the Marquis de Visdelou-Guimbeau, whose coat of arms is three wolves with their tongues hanging out. Then he dove into his car, told the driver to race for home. There Grisou, the Maltese "alibi" cat, stood on his hind legs at the window, making strong noises in his throat...
...accused, made themselves felt. Doubt was cast on the cause of the singed hairs; the possibility was opened up that De Marigny might have touched the screen two days after the struggle in Sir Harry's bedroom, and the name of Grisou, an ash-grey Maltese cat, was introduced to explain away the light in Freddy's bedroom...
Grisou is really Guimbeau's cat. The Marquis Georges de Visdelou-Guimbeau is Freddy's boyhood friend from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The night of the murder Freddy and Guimbeau gave a party for friends (Nancy was in Maine with her mother). Afterwards Freddy drove two wives of R.A.F. pilots home and, he says, went to bed. This was just after 1. At 3 Guimbeau drove his friend Betty Roberts home, returning 15 minutes later to find Freddy having trouble with Grisou, who would not let him sleep. Guimbeau put Grisou out and went...
...Crowninshield is ready to pay fond tribute to the late great Architect Stanford White, to the old Waldorf, to the full-rigged hostess of the 1900s, Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. He is an accomplished toastmaster, cotillon leader, bon vivant who neither drinks nor smokes, first-nighter, balletomane, golfer, bridge player, cat enthusiast, and clubman (Union, Knickerbocker). He once hired Dorothy Parker to write for him on the strength of one line she produced in an advertising agency ("Brevity is the soul of lingerie...