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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upstairs and downstairs and into the First Lady's chamber went two workmen last week, lugging shiny green holly wreaths, one for each window of the White House. Downstairs all was Christmas rush. Bookkeeper Henry Nesbitt listed stacks of early gifts; Housekeeper Mrs. Nesbitt thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President...
...Roosevelt may have crossed her fingers. Thus far there has been no sign of chickenpox or tonsillitis (Sister & Buzzie Dall, 1932), sinus (Franklin Jr. 1936) or other ill hap. On hand will be still-ailing Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, and his bright-eyed, motherless daughter, Diana, 7. And last to open her stocking-by custom-will be the President's 85-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, still the belle of the Hudson Valley...
...Last week the President...
Winthrop and Dormitory sextets battled it out last night to a 2 to 2 tie, climaxing the third series of inter-House hockey matches at the Boston Skating Club rink in Brighton. This was the last House athletic contest of any kind this year...
With both teams undefeated this season, the match last night was especially full of action. In the opinion of timekeeper Adolph W. Samborski '26, director of intramural athletics, Jim Rousemaniere of Winthrop played by far the scrappiest game of the match, and, with such other Puritan stars as Bill LaCroix, Bob Winsor, and Bob Fulton on the ice, the Dormitory players had their hands full...