Word: eleanore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news was nostalgic last week. Alice Roosevelt (Longworth) in 1902, Ethel Roosevelt (Derby) in 1908 and Helen Taft (Manning) in 1910 were the last three girls to "come out" in the White House. Last week that mansion was again turned upside down for a debut. The lucky girl was Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt-daughter of her brother Grade Hall Roosevelt by his first wife, now Mrs. John Cutter of Dedham, Mass. She had already had one debut in Boston and observed frankly that coming out is "a racket, but a pleasant...
...invitations went out in Aunt Eleanor Roosevelt's name only, so that it would not be a "command performance." But the President attended. Niece Eleanor, pretty, lively, 18, was to have worn a dress sent her by King George of Greece whom she met while visiting the Minister Lincoln MacVeaghs in Athens. It didn't arrive so she made out very well in billowing white organdy...
...Presidential yacht Potomac, and were each instructed to squire a girl who had never attended a White House dance-the guests were mostly youngsters. White wine punch was the official refreshment.* The orchestra was from New York, conducted by Irving ("Yes, We Have No Bananas") Conn. They danced the Eleanor Glide and Virginia Reel as well as the Lambeth Walk. An exciting moment came when Mrs. Roosevelt, leading a reel with her brother, tripped on her train and tumbled over backwards...
Earlier this month the Star omitted "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt, printed a curt paragraph explaining that "a visit Mrs. Roosevelt made yesterday to a reptile farm in Sarasota, Fla., contained no information the Star believes its readers would enjoy. . . ." Not until last week did Mrs. Roosevelt learn the reason her column was dropped-the Star's old snake taboo. She had devoted a paragraph to telling how rattlers and moccasins are "milked" for medical purposes...
...Miss Eleanor Spencer, Radcliffe '41, and John Sever '40 head the cast of the Dramatic Club's modern dress production of Sheridan's classic force. "The Critic," which is to be presented in Peabody. Playhouse in Boston on the evenings of December...