Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still holding out against Harry Truman, sourly conceded defeat. A.D.A., which had favored both Ike and Douglas, admitted that the President could get the nomination "if he persists [in pursuing it] with the power of his office." In other words, they would be for Truman, but without enthusiasm. When Eleanor Roosevelt, a prominent figure in A.D.A., emerged from a White House chat with the President last week, she told newsmen that she was not even going to the convention...
...Times's Brooks Atkinson noted her "high spirit and versatility"; the Herald Tribune's Howard Barnes found her "attractive and promising"; the Daily News's John Chapman, "entirely acceptable"; PM's Louis Kronenberger, "Fetching to look at... pleasant to listen to." Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt, back from London just in time to watch from the second row, told Columnist Earl Wilson that Faye looked real pretty...
Grounds. In Chicago, Mrs. Eleanor Espe sought a divorce, complained that she asked her husband what time it was, and he 1) hit her in the face with a clock, 2) commented, "I always knew your face would stop a clock...
...less stupid than your sisters." Stupid or not, they all wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, who had just completed his prison sentence in England for immorality and could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine brain and an emerald ring, all belonging to a literary gentleman of some prominence, aged thirty-nine...
...guests of honor will be: Eleanor M. Millard, Marjory A. Reynolds, Marilyn R. Starkman, and Ellen G. Stearns, all Radcliffe...