Word: eleanore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until Eleanor Roosevelt came there, the White House's most energetic mistress had been Dolly Madison. She furnished the executive mansion with fine gilt chairs built in France, had the good sense to hide the Lansdowne portrait of Washington and fly to Virginia when the British invaded Washington. But when the British left, Dolly Madison came back home. As every reader of newspapers is by now aware. Franklin Roosevelt's Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion...
...Some of the ladies politely hinted that they did not. Beaming as brightly as ever, Mrs. Roosevelt replied that she was just experimenting and wanted to find out. Recent dinner guests at the executive mansion have reported frankfurters as the entrée. "I should be most unhappy," says Eleanor Roosevelt, ''if I could not buy new books, but having beefsteak for dinner would mean nothing to me whatsoever...
...daughter Anna Dall, who has her mother's long legs and vivacity, remains available for advertising, since her broadcasting contract with Best & Co. expired. By no means as brilliant a White House daughter as "Princess"' Alice Roosevelt (Longworth), her second cousin, she and her children "Sistie" (Anna Eleanor) and "Buzzie" (Curtis Roosevelt) do warm and brighten the place tremendously in contrast to the Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover atmospheres. Since her estrangement from her stockbroking husband, Anna Dall remains in Washington, pours tea for her father's guests during her mother's frequent absences...
...Women" It is only natural that anyone who circulates as fast as Eleanor Roosevelt and sounds off so often on so many subjects should not consistently display Minervan wit & wisdom. Fortnight ago she published a book, It's Up to the Women.* Her theme is characteristic: "We are going through a great crisis in this country. . . . The women have a big part to play if we are coming through successfully. . . . Many of us are afraid because we have lost pleasant things which we have always had, but the women who came over in the Mayflower did not have them...
...pages indefatigable Mrs. Roosevelt has spread her talent very thin. It is not half so rich and keen a book as her cousin Alice's, published simultaneously (TIME, Nov. 6). Nevertheless, the volume and catholicity of subjects Eleanor Roosevelt touches on-from preparing stuffed eggs to the NRA-proves her once more a lady of illimitable interests. Excerpts...