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Word: eleanore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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there is an occasional, accidental union among the chapters which make up novel with its "Grand Hotel" in reality the book is a of seven short stories, each admirable in themselves, full of the sincerest touches. Eleanor calls upon her full knowledge of human types, gathered in true cosmopolitan fashion out of the experiences of her own youthful life. She does exceedingly well, particularly in the more pathetic stories of Franlcin Hanssemann, the school mistress, and Madame Lenosova, the actress attempting to salvage something of value and fame out of her long existing career so that she may impress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK OF THE WEEK | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

...Lady Eleanor Smith, a woman not yet twenty-five years of age, is the daughter of the late Earl of Birkenhead. She is a woman of great beauty and is popular in English society. Her world is not limited to the narrow circles of sedate Mayfair. She has extensive knowledge of the circus, the theater, the world of sport, and of the great middle classes of England. She is quite capable of entering into sympathetic regard for the particular individuals she portrays, and she has an excellent knowledge of the milieus within which these individuals act. Her book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK OF THE WEEK | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

...Died. Eleanor Steele Scott, 29, wife of Technocracy's Howard Scott; in Perth Amboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 18, 1933 | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...Boston's South Station, flaxen-haired Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall boarded a Pullman for Washington, gave the conductor a lower-berth ticket. Said he: "The President's daughter can't ride in an ordinary lower berth. We have engaged the drawing room for you." Said she: 'I've $4.53 here in my purse and that's all. If you want to give me a drawing room for that I'm perfectly satisfied." She slept in the lower berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...Archibald Bulloch (1729-77) of Savannah, famed Georgia Revolutionist, was a maternal ancestor of Theodore Roosevelt, hence also of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt and of Franklin Roosevelt's children. *Never a professional, Actor Smith won gold and silver medals for oratory while in St. James' Parish School, appeared in most of the parish dramatic club's plays. His favorite part: Congressman Bardwell Slote in The Almighty Dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Tories & Thomases | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

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