Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Ill's sister, Peggy Ann, aged three, was a little more sedate, a little more aware of the importance of her position, except when her grandmother took her to the Amaryllis exhibition at the Department of Agriculture. There Mrs. Hoover, patience herself with children, had her hands full keeping Peggy Ann from clutching handfuls of the flowers. "I want 'em! I want 'em!" she kept repeating...
...management of the White House is no great burden to Mrs. Hoover, homemaker. Miss Ellen E. Riley, the Coolidge housekeeper, has departed and in her place is Mrs. Ava Long of New Hampshire. Under Mrs. Hoover's supervision, Mrs. Long "runs" the staff of a score of White House "help," mostly black...
Anyone who ever saw the Hoover home at Palo Alto or on S Street knows Mrs. Hoover's fondness for verandas and terraces. Back of the White House, not far from her husband's medicine-ball-ground, Mrs. Hoover has had laid out a flagstoned retreat among the trees, with rustic chairs against a shrubbery background. Nearby a special flowerbed has been turned, prepared and planted. Mrs. Hoover supervises the gardener but seldom trowels herself...
People who have visited the Hoovers in or out of the White House realize that Mrs. Hoover's "at-homeness" is not a commonplace quality. It is the product of wide education, travel, association with big-calibre people in many lands. A small-town publisher's wife and a small-town lawyer's wife have been succeeded by a cosmopolite's wife...
...they went on long camping trips up into the mountains (Mrs. Henry preferred to remain behind, ride in a surrey). Mr. Henry taught his girl to know trees, flowers, rocks, birds, animals. He gave her lessons in building fires, tent-pitching, sleeping under the stars. "Those days," says Mrs. Hoover, "went by like a dream." Her father died last summer. To Monterey one day came Prof. Branner, geologist of the new Leland Stanford Jr. University. He gave a popular lecture on "The Bones of the Earth." Lou Henry attended, listened closely...