Word: helens
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Fainting & Needlework. Ida McKinley, on the other hand, was given to fainting spells, and she whiled away nearly all of her husband's term doing needlework. William Howard Taft's wife Helen attended every Cabinet meeting with him, and when the press accused her of influencing policy, she insisted that she went along only to keep him awake. Woodrow Wilson's second wife Edith was called "the Acting President" because only she and a doctor could visit-and presumably influence -her husband during the months that he lay ill after a stroke...
...this sensible explanation. George Bancroft turned the war into a moral crusade for freedom and made poor old bumbling George III a sinister villain. Arthur Schlesinger Sr. saw the war as a class struggle in which colonial merchants were pitted against colonial proletariat. Then, in the 1950s, Edmund and Helen Morgan astonished the historical community by declaring that resistance to the Stamp Act was, after all, the cause of the war. Historical interpretation had come full circle...
...Harvard alumni received medals. Others were Detlev W. Bronk, S.D. '53; Aaron Copland, D. Mus. '60; Walt Disney '28 (hon.), M.A. (hon.) '38; T. S. Eliot '10; Walter Lippman '10; Ralph McGill, LL. D. '60; Reinhold Niebuhr, S.T.D. '44; Carl Sandburg, Litt. D. '40; Dr. Helen B. Taussig S.D. '59; and Dr. Paul Dudley White...
...Helen Keller celebrated her 84th birthday in Easton, Conn., and though she no longer writes or lectures, she is, reports a friend, a woman "of great dignity, who is growing old with grace...
Despite his prediction of the "New Jerusalem," Swedenborg died a Lutheran, and was buried according to the rites of the Swedish church. In 1784, his followers organized a society to propagate his teachings, which have influenced such disparate figures as Balzac, Emerson, Lincoln, and Helen Keller. Today there are more than 7,000 loyal Swedenborgians in the U.S. (and about 45,000 elsewhere) who belong to three churches. The biggest concentration of them is in the Philadelphia suburb of Bryn Athyn; there, most of the town's population of 1,100 belong to the General Church...