Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High above the river the big stone-and-stucco mansion house stood in its park, dignified, comfortable, a little shabby. Trees, paths, lawns and gardens, groomed carefully by five generations of gardeners, looked dull now in the winter tag-end. But inside the spacious mansion at Hyde Park there was warmth and gayety, perhaps in the flowered cretonne drawing-room-where afternoon coffee is a daily ritual...
...senior warden of Hyde Park's St. James Episcopal Church was accused of using the Holy Bible to promote his political ambitions...
President Roosevelt deeded his 113-year old stone & stucco Hyde Park home and 33 acres around it to the U.S. as a "national historic site." He will keep possession and pay taxes during his lifetime; it will not go to the nation until all of his immediate family have died. The President has already given the $350,000 Colonial Dutch Roosevelt Library and 16 adjoining acres to the U.S. Of the immediate Hyde Park grounds Roosevelt heirs will get only the 60 acres between the house and the Hudson...
...eleventh Christmas since Franklin Roosevelt was first elected President was also the first he had spent at Hyde Park since 1932. Then he had four grandchildren. By last week, five marriages and three divorces later, he had 14 grandchildren, and the seven who were on hand to spend Christmas with him made the 20 bric-a-brac-filled rooms of the Hyde Park mansion seem precariously crowded. The mother of John Roosevelt Boettiger, 4, found his overcoat pocket crammed with keys he had filched from White House doors. Grandpa Roosevelt-his hair considerably whiter than...
...Rome. His outstanding work in smoky Birmingham has been guiding the Father Hudson Homes for Children, one of Britain's largest orphanages. Birmingham folk also know the wiry, redheaded clergyman for his street preaching. For years he went every Saturday night to the "Bull Ring" (Birmingham's Hyde Park), where he sturdily traded verbal punches with hecklers...