Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devotion to his party. He is a devout Methodist, a 33rd Degree Mason, and the author of fresh-water textbooks on history, physiology, politics, civics. Outside Congress: His wife, Eva C. Thomas, died in 1925. By her he had three sons. One, Lehr, was House parliamentarian under Speaker Longworth. In Washington Senator Fess lives alone at the exclusive Carlton. He spends as much of his time as possible on his seven acres at Yellow Springs, where, emulating Henry Clay, he practices his speeches pacing a flagstone walk and addressing the birds. He is no sportsman. "My golf stick," says...
...LOVES I HAVE-Clara Longworth de Chambrun-Lippincott...
...mysterious gaps in Shakespeare's personal history. Who, for instance, was the famed Dark Lady of the Sonnets Bernard Shaw and the late Frank Harris "proved" she was Mary Fitton, maid-of-honor at Elizabeth's court. Countess de Chambrun (Cincinnati-born sister of the late Nicholas Longworth) thinks the Dark Lady was Mistress Nan Davenant, wife of an Oxford innkeeper...
...desk of the journal clerk. Day after day Representatives sidled up to the desk and signed. When 113 names were on the list Democratic Leader Byrns gloomily prophesied the total number would be reached. When the list neared 140 Speaker Rainey, who cannot control the House as Speakers Longworth and Garner used to do, paid a hurried visit to the White House, returned with the announcement: "I am authorized by the President to say this is not the time to pay the bonus and he cannot approve any legislation to that effect...
...President Roosevelt's town house at No. 49 East 65th St. from $170,000 to $165,000. ¶ The President and Mrs. Roosevelt held the fourth of their state receptions for officials of government departments. Among the guests who arrived in a snow storm was Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. She had on a set of gold Hindu earrings in the shape of cornucopias, a red-gold chain about her neck from which dangled a green-gold frog fashioned by the Chiriqui Indians...