Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nurse carrying their baby sister. Boris took each child by the hand, led them dancing and prancing back to the gate. There they spied Mrs. Hoover in hiding. "Grandmother!" they whooped and rushed into her arms. Thus did the President's grandchildren -Herbert III, 4; Peggy Anne, 5; Joan, 6 months - come to the White House for a long stay. A four-room nursery suite was ready for them on the top floor. ¶ A bride & groom were entertained at White House luncheon - Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays and the onetime Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman. ¶ Mrs. Henry Drought...
...employment and on wholesale prices have been greatly expanded and improved. . . . The actual speed of publication has been greatly increased." A Davis truism: "Children are the most precious assets of the Nation." He has five children, all of their names beginning like his with J-James, Jane, Jean, Joan, Jewel...
...been called 47 different varieties of undesirable persons. Now let's have a standing vote-have I or have I not any sex appeal?" - Whopper-Teller Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) before the St. Louis Rotary Club...
Herbert III and Peggy Ann are going back to the White House for a long visit. Last week they and Baby Joan were brought on from California by their mother. They stopped at Asheville, N. C., where their father is recuperating from tuberculosis. They planned to take him up to Washington for the presidential Thanksgiving dinner. Then Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr. would leave the children in Grandmother's care, while together they went back to Asheville to live. The top floor of the White House was abustle last week with preparation for the grandchildren's occupancy...
...Author Joan Erskine (Adam & Eve, Galahad) went to Chattanooga, Tenn., to lecture at the University of Chattanooga. President Alexander Guerry of the university went down to the station to meet him. Said Dr. Guerry to Dr. Erskine: "I asked one gentleman if he were Dr. Erskine and he said emphatically 'I should say not.' I asked a second man and he said, 'I wish I were.' That shows at least one man has read your books." "Yes, it does," said Dr. Erskine. "But which...