Word: eleanoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...School Forum speakers next semester will include Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Paul Blanshard, Anthony P. Nugent, Jr. '47 3L, president of the Forum, announced last night...
Handsome Alfonso VIII of Castile was married to a haughty English princess named Eleanor of Aquitaine (sister of Richard the Lionhearted), but he tired of her and ran off to Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned by Eleanor's agents. Alfonso, gnawed by both a guilty conscience and a dark suspicion that he was next on the poisoners' list, went home to Eleanor and atonement. Last week, almost 800 years later, the fruits of Alfonso's atonement were providing Spanish archeologists and medieval...
...Queen Eleanor, whose domestic difficulties resulted in the convent's foundation, still lay in her royal robes, her hand still covered by a white calfskin glove embroidered in green silk. From other tombs came exquisite brocade bonnets. The colors of the silks were as bright as though dyed yesterday. There was even a bunch of tiny withered roses, a token of personal tenderness 700 years...
...biographical books: John Gunther's inside F.D.R. had already been announced. But only the President's wife and his secretary had much to add in 1949. In F.D.R., My Boss, Grace Tully set down such between-dictation details as she had observed in nearly 17 stenographic years. Eleanor Roosevelt's This I Remember was the historically valuable reminiscing of a wife who concluded that "I was one of those who served his purposes." Solid to Fascinating. Most of the year's good biographies had literary figures for their subjects. Others ranged from worthy-solid (Historian Samuel...
...nickels & dimes in beer joints before he rose to millionaire stardom (as high as $8,000 a week) in vaudeville, movies (The Little Colonel, The Littlest Rebel with Moppet Shirley Temple) and musicomedies (The Hot Mikado). A natural dancer who never took a lesson, he gave lessons to Eleanor Powell and Ruby Keeler, originated the widely imitated stair dance, danced down Broadway to celebrate his 61st birthday. Twice married, Bojangles credited his stamina and success to vanilla ice cream and teetotaling, lived sumptuously in Harlem, gambled and generously gave away his earnings (between...