Word: elivera
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...idea of a good time covers a lot of territory-golf, bridge, fishing, shooting, painting, and even cooking. Last week he was happily dabbling in his off-duty hobbies. By 6 o'clock on his first morning in Denver, he was up and around the kitchen of Mrs. Elivera Doud, his mother-in-law, cooking up a huge kettle of his celebrated vegetable soup...
While Mamie, her mother Elivera Doud and her sister Frances ("Mike") Moore gushed over Martha Washington (Mechlin lace shawl and pink faille dress hand-painted with native North American flowers and insects), Ike went by the Blue Room (as it was in McKinley's time) and the Red Room (Coolidge era). At the end, he impatiently chewed his upper lip and, to hurry his ladyfolk along, called, "Say, come look at Mamie...
...hands, Ike flew back to Washington, picked up a lot of paper work, and with Mamie took off for Denver and semi-vacation. On the plane the President signed into law 41 acts of Congress in 40 minutes, then relaxed. At Denver he greeted his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elivera Doud, and said: "Well, we're back again, Min. Boy, am I delighted...
...Elivera Doud's home at 750 Lafayette Street, Denver, is the kind of solidly comfortable, nondescript dwelling in which millions of middle-aged Americans spent their childhood. Built of the grey-brown brick favored by Denver architects 40 years ago, it sits right up against its neighbors and is separated from the street only by a short, steep terrace and a patch of fine green lawn. Its wide porch is equipped with a glider and wicker chairs; red geraniums grow in low flower boxes on the railings. Last week, in this unremarkable survival of the parlor era, 75-year...