Word: eleanor
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Honored by the Williamsburg Settlement of Brooklyn with a gold medal for "her great efforts to transpose the ideals of social justice into realities": Eleanor Roosevelt. Principal speaker at a gathering of 1,200 people to pay her honor: Playwright Clare Boothe Luce, former Republican Representative from Connecticut, who called Mrs. Roosevelt "the best-loved woman in the world today." Said Mrs. Luce: "Mrs. Roosevelt has done more good deeds on a bigger scale for a longer time than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed-or so distressed...
...other judges are Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, William B. van Lennep '29, curator of the Theatre Collection, and Eleanor Hughes, dramatic critic of the Boston Herald...
...acting of the supporting cast is uniformly excellent. I especially enjoyed Thayer David's gross portrayal of Sir Jasper Fidget, though Earl Montgomery, Bryant Holiday, Eleanor MacLean, Leslie Paul, Naomi Raphaelson, and Jeanne Tufts all perform well. Kenneth Scott was imperturbably droll, though silent, in the part of Balthazar, a little colored boy who attends Sparkish (in its zest for "business" the Brattle group created this role out of thin...
...resumed on an emergency basis with bureau managers and staffers operating machines, some lines got snarled with teletype hookups of non-newspaper companies. In Des Moines, the Tribune got a phone call from the Watson Bros. Transportation Co. Said a baffled trucker: "We've got a column by Eleanor Roosevelt down here. What do you want us to do with...
American Association for the United Nations thought the suggestion was "shocking in its implication," and "might end the last opportunity for an agreement that would prevent a third World War." Eleanor Roosevelt, even-voiced mistress of the deliberate non sequitur, said: "Mr. Hoover's statement seemed a little odd, considering the fact that he is a Quaker. This seemed an action somewhat marching toward...