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Shirt-Sleeves Trend. What bothered Sara Roosevelt more was that Franklin seemed to be slipping away from her. She and "dear Franklin" argued over the role he should play in life. In a long, grande dame letter to "Dearest Franklin and Dearest Eleanor" she wrote: "The foolish old saying 'noblesse oblige' is good and 'honneur oblige' possibly expresses it better for most of us. One can be as democratic as one likes, but... we owe a great example." She sorrowed over "the trend to 'shirt sleeves...
...been a state senator, then he went to Washington. His letters now were mostly to "Dearest Babs," his wife...
...year 1916 drew to a close. "Dearest Babs . . . J.D. is too damned slow for words ... holds me up all down the line...
...year later that Eleanor had occasion to write Sara Roosevelt, who was arriving home from Europe: "Dearest Mama, Franklin has been quite ill and so can't go down to meet you on Tuesday." Later Mama learned that Franklin had been struck down by infantile paralysis...
...arms, you dearest boy,' cried his father in transports, 'run to my arms. Glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is worth more than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold...