Word: ericksen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Grey-haired Mrs. Ruth Ericksen is the owner (with her husband) and the dominant personality of historic Fontainebleau Inn, near Odessa, N.Y. Ericksenian is the table she sets. Ericksenian the way she describes it. For instance...
...dream of lamb chops! . . . They rollop up and down in front of Fontainebleau, parading huge signs: 'Ruth Ericksen is unfair to lamb chops! We are young, tender and juicy. . . . Moreover, we are modest, we wear frills down to our ankles and that is more than SHE does on some of these Saturday nights-yeah...
According to what Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt had heard, Mrs. Ericksen was not only unfair to lamb chops, she was unfair to youth. Mrs. Roosevelt had heard that Mrs. Ericksen did not like the American Youth Congress, to which Mrs. Roosevelt is very partial. Last month she invited Mrs. Ericksen to the White House. There the astounded Mrs. Ericksen was met by the President's wife and members of the A. Y.C., who straightway whelmed her with arguments. Mrs. Ericksen spent the night, went home, wrote a "thank you" note to her hostess, added: "But my opinion...
...should have attended Dies Committee meetings with A. Y. C. members who were to be questioned; that members of the A. Y. C. should have booed her husband when he addressed them last winter on the White House lawn. Rejoined Mrs. Roosevelt: "Many things are regrettable, Mr. Sullivan." Mrs. Ericksen's party, the guests agreed, was an exciting success...
Last week, back among her lamb chops, Mrs. Ericksen said she had enjoyed the party, too, had not changed her mind a whit about the A. Y. C. Yeah...