Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diana Roosevelt had a part-time career as a public servant around Washington. Diana, daughter of Eleanor's late brother Hall, and a sophomore at George Washington University, hustled hash in a coke-&-hamburger joint...
...about life & letters in the U.S., to which the Colums emigrated in 1914. Mrs. Colum is still angry at people who "misunderstood" her critical volume, From These Roots (1937). She is none too sure of the merits of various others, from Amy Lowell and Hart Crane to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt...
Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt mulled over a career woman's question for her newspaper readers. "Do I want to be called Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt or Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt? Of course, I want to be called the latter. ... I have never made any name for myself...
...Eleanor Roosevelt's note, that stress upon training individual personalities has done away with some of the essential disciplines, and Director Taylor's remark, "When learning becomes drudgery, it usually ceases to be productive," taken together point the way to the fault of schooling today. Attempting to be good teachers and to eliminate drudgery, we have failed to replace it with useful work...
...troubles had only started. First of all, there were big problems of security. And it is obviously impossible to make a free-swinging, forceful picture if every foot of it has to satisfy the official and personal tastes of numerous politicians, brasshats and scientists. Casting was difficult, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was uneasy about any actor's portraying her late husband.* In the first version, it developed that Actor Roman Bohnen's bearing (as Harry Truman) was not quite "military" enough, so the Truman scenes were reshot with Actor Art Baker...