Word: eleanore
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...would not have thought it possible to write about the role of the President's spouse without mentioning the remarkable partnership forged between Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. I guess that would have spoiled your simplified story line reporting an orderly progression of liberation from then...
...onto this storyline makes no more sense than scoring every Western set in the 1870s with the arias Verdi was composing at the time. At least the Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas Beatles show, Love, was set in Liverpool and found recognizably English equivalents for Penny Lane and Eleanor Rigby's cemetery. The NBC TV drama American Dreams, also set in the '60s, wove a greater range of period music through its characters' lives, as did American Graffiti and lots of other I-love-the-'60s jukebox movies...
...Senator was referring to the fact that the approximately 580,000 residents of Washington, D.C., despite paying federal taxes, have no voting power in either house of the United States Congress. Instead, they have Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, who serves in the House of Representatives and can participate in debate but is prohibited from casting any official vote. Norton has been on the job for 17 years, many of which she has devoted to trying to secure more rights for D.C. residents. Since 2001, she and Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent, have been introducing legislation to provide Washingtonians with...
Wherever those places are, Lady Bird has probably been there herself. Though she never gained the reputation that Eleanor Roosevelt had for popping up in unlikely spots, she has traveled some 200,000 miles at home and abroad in five years as First Lady. This week she is completing a final coast-to-coast trip covering 6,071 miles in 96 hours, taking her to New Orleans, Cape Kennedy and the California redwood forests. Before leaving, she welcomed 54 new U.S. citizens in the first naturalization ceremony ever held in the White House. The group ranged from an eight-year...
...ridiculous. Deborra-Lee Furness is a charming, spirited, good-looking woman who happens to be married to Hugh Jackman, a freak of nature. Hence rumors circulate that Jackman is gay. Had there been an Internet in times gone by, they probably would have swirled around Queen Victoria's and Eleanor Roosevelt's husbands as well...