Word: elliott
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Pennsylvania--Seniors Karl Thornton, Julio Piazza and Elliott Rogers: juniors...
Eleanor Roosevelt's childhood sounds almost too bad to be true. To her father Elliott, she was "a miracle from heaven," but Elliott was usually drunk. Her mother Anna was a New York beauty who wanted "a precious boy." Aunt Edith took one look and concluded: "Her mouth and teeth seem to have no future." When she proved to be a solemn child, her mother took to referring to her as "Granny...
There were other misfortunes. For two tender years she painfully wore a metal back brace to correct a spinal curvature. On an 1887 ocean crossing-following a European tour that was unaccountably supposed to divorce Elliott from alcohol-the Roosevelts' ship was rammed by another, and Eleanor was treated to a 77tam'c-style scene of tragedy and hysteria that left her with a lifelong fear of water...
When Eleanor was ten, Elliott died -literally from falling down drunk. The little girl went to live with her maternal grandmother Hall, who still had five unruly offspring at home in Oak Terrace, her Dutchess County mansion, and was none too quick of wit. There, too, liquor flowed as surely as the water in the Hudson near by. Eleanor's Uncle Vallie, only 25, was a mean, unpredictable drunk who, among other things, took potshots at people walking on the grounds. Unsteady of aim, he always missed, but such pastimes made daily life harrowing. Eleanor befriended the laundress...
...candidacy of Senator Henry M. Jackson. This is incorrect, as he would know if he read the Crimson's own notice column. A group of College, Law and Business students is presently organizing, and, as our notice in the Crimson said, can be contacted at 547-5009. Yours, Elliott Abrams...