Word: longworths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Margaret Truman was 21 and marriageable-the first marriageable White House daughter in more than a quarter of a century. Gossip columnists hopefully reminded their readers of the wooing and winning of T.R.'s daughter Alice by Nicholas Longworth, and the marriages of the Wilsons, father & daughters. They noticed, and noted in their syndicated columns, every young man Margaret saw more than once...
...part the Anderson Bridge must play will be a difficult one--unrewarding, steady, and dull. It is our guess, however, that the old bridge will meet its new role with calm dignity. And if perchance, the structure should someday sink into the muddy depths of the Charles, the Nicholas Longworth Anderson Bridge will still stand as a symbol a symbol of many things to many...
...funny that the bridge was never really called by its right name. Larz Anderson '88 gave the bridge as a memorial to his father, Nicholas Longworth Anderson '58, but as the years passed the full epithet gave way first to "Anderson" and then to "Larz Anderson...
...hubbub of Washington, said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, "I'm privileged. I occupy a position of malevolent detachment...
Chatting with Novelist Edna Ferber, Alice Longworth, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, recalled a recent illness in an isolated western cabin: "There was a foot and a half of snow outside, and my temperature was 103. Of course, I had my own aureomycin with me, but I thought, 'Wouldn't it be strange if I died here in this log cabin?' " Quipped Author Ferber, "Just think what the headline writers would have done with the story. I can see it now, 'From White House to Log Cabin...