Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of the pathos, however, comes from the picture's magnificent heroine. Obviously, Salome represents Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, struggling valiantly to save this unfortunate man. That she is unsuccessful is not so important as that she has pulled every string at her command...
...names editors regretfully cut out "coffee planter" and, for the sake of simplicity, eliminated "state" from the last line. The Denver office has had no complaints about cutting out titles or occupations, almost none about the liberties taken with names for editing purposes. Says Eleanor Kohler, staff assistant at the Denver office...
...Russian newspaper readers, Madame Molotov's attempt to make soap from frog fat was a surefire joke. So was her 1936 visit (as Olga Karpovskaya) to New York and Washington, where she lunched with Eleanor Roosevelt and announced that Soviet men had gone back to using toilet water. The Pearl was soon promoted to the Ministry of Food Industry, Division of Fish. Years later, having thoroughly proved her incompetence, she was fired by a rising young party boss named Georgy Malenkov. "The crux of the matter," Stalin is said to have remarked, "is that too many fish are swimming...
Died. Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson, 61, longtime (since 1928) personal secretary to Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, who once described her as "the person who makes life possible for me"; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Widener never had to make the decision. On the way back from Europe the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank. Harry and his father were drowned. His mother, Eleanor Elkins Widener survived and a year later at Commencement used a silver trowel to lay the cornerstone for the Widener Library. Two years later at the 1915 Commencement, the Library, and in it the Memorial Rooms, opened...