Word: hyde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a gleam in his eye, but without his flashing smile, he boarded the train that took him back from Hyde Park to Washington. On the train he received his entourage of newshawks. Sitting erect, foursquare, with the bearing of a victor, he answered questions, but declined, with the same gleam in his eye, to speak of his victory. His only post-election comment was a commendatory reference to an editorial by Editor Cleveland Rodgers of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.* Whether uncrowned King, Moses, or lover, he was going forth to play his part with the confidence that his part...
...President of the U. S. made answer to the woman election clerk as he went to cast his ballot. Accompanied by wife and mother he had driven through a pouring rain to Hyde Park's town hall...
...Before departing for Hyde Park President Roosevelt gave his one open political endorsement of the campaign. It went to his friend and successor at Albany, Governor Herbert Lehman, standing for re-election in New York. As the President finished reading his endorsement to assembled newshawks, he was asked whether he had forgotten to endorse Democratic Senator Copeland, also standing for re-election in New York. For answer the President smilingly remarked that the reporters would be surprised to know how often he had voted a split ticket. By the time Franklin Roosevelt reached Hyde Park, the news of his virtual...
...into the White House. His ballot in 1930 was cast by mail. In 1932 he crossed the continent for the first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin Roosevelt might have sent to Hyde Park for an absentee ballot this year, alleging that business kept him in Washington. But, ever ready to visit his mother's estate overlooking the Hudson River, he made the election (see p. 14) an occasion to go home for a four-day rest and cast his ballot in person...
...illustrate this not unusual thesis, he sets his scene in a mythical Hyde Park, brings on Lillian Gish as The Young Whore,* her embittered mother as The Old Woman, her stepfather The Atheist, her real father The Bishop, her various lovers, pickups and The Dreamer. Each act is a season and each season has its appropriate song and dance by the folk in the park. As the seasons progress The Young Whore's lot grows sorrier. The Bishop offers her only the cold comfort of a nunnery. The Atheist is unhappily God-obsessed. The Old Woman, lamenting a lost...