Word: eleanor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world that has long been in too much of a hurry to recognize genuine kindness, humble dignity and courageous truthfulness, Eleanor Roosevelt stands out like a stoplight. Born into a halcyon world, fortified against poverty and bitterness by wealth, social position and a fortunate marriage, the memories of her "shy, ugly duckling years" have no doubt helped her to possess the wonderful empathy she has for peoples everywhere ... I, for one, who have never met or even seen "Mrs. R.," love her dearly; how must others, who have been touched by her, feel...
...behalf of those Americans for whom the "shrill upper register" voice of Eleanor Roosevelt echoes the highest ideals of this deranged era, I want to extend my sincere thanks to TIME-a magazine I generally read with apprehensive glance and frequent shudder...
...average week she is likely to be busy for dinner almost every night, and never miss having lunch with "someone," which means anybody from Navy Secretary Dan Kimball to Eleanor Roosevelt. After Newbold Morris was roughly handled by a congressional committee for his part in the tanker deals (TIME, March 12), Columnist Fleeson carted him home to cheer him up with a home-cooked meal-and, incidentally, get a column...
ROME AND A VILLA (315 pp.]-Eleanor Clark-Doubleday...
Aeneas never wrote a book about Rome, but hosts of subsequent travelers have more than repaired the oversight. The latest of the books about Rome is by a novelist named Eleanor Clark, and it is well worth reading. Traveler Clark saunters around Rome with her senses peeled, and lets the city work...