Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next afternoon at Hyde Park the President announced his decision to broadcast to the nation and the world an address of "major importance" on Monday night. The 15-minute talk was to be rebroadcast by short wave in 14 foreign languages...
...James Roosevelt at a dinner party given by his cousin, Theodore Roosevelt.* A retired lawyer and sportsman, James Roosevelt was a widower with a son her age. A few months later they were married, and Sara Delano Roosevelt went to live with James at Hyde Park, across the river...
Having done all this, the President, relaxed and happy, trained back to Hyde Park, made a little speech at the corny annual get-together of the Franklin Roosevelt Home Club, held each late summer for twelve years at the home of his tenant farmer, dignified old Moses L. Smith...
Jekyll and Hyde was an instant bestseller and a boon to hundreds of sermon-seeking clerics. Richard Mansfield read it and induced his friend Thomas Russell Sullivan to adapt the "shilling shocker" for the stage. He played it in London and all over the U.S. until he died 20 years later. Two notable film versions of the play were made: one by John Barrymore in 1920-looking like a fur cap-the other by Fredric March-looking like Gargantua-in 1931. Both cinemactors played it successfully as pure horror, without fretting over the psychological implications...
...cabinetmaker by day who used his nights for thievery. The author never forgot the stories his nurse made up for him around the Deacon's furniture. These, together with a Frenchman's treatise on the subconscious, which he read years later, helped fashion Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a first-water literary classic that is still infinitely superior to its stage and cinemadaptations...