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...Whip smart and witty, eccentric and strikingly beautiful, had she been born in another age, Alice Roosevelt Longworth might have ended up a scientist, a writer or a particularly brutal judge on American Idol. Instead, she is remembered as one of the capital's most successful hostesses, a gifted gossip whose decades of sharing filet of beef and sly one-liners with statesmen and their wives led her to call herself "an ambulatory Washington monument...
...lavish East Room wedding, Alice married Nicholas Longworth, an Ohio Congressman who shared little with her besides an interest in Republican politics. A drinker and a playboy, Longworth quickly earned his wife's "complete contempt," says Sturm. Alice also grew to resent her do-gooder cousins Franklin and Eleanor, often mocking Eleanor's bucktoothed smile at dinner parties. "Grammy couldn't stand earnestness," Sturm says...
Congressman Nicholas Longworth, and in November...
...offense to Nicholas Longworth Anderson, the namesake for the Anderson Memorial Bridge (the most frequently crossed overpass to the Allston athletic facilities), but he’s the reason we’ll do whatever is necessary to sneak our way into Debauchery, but we won’t walk to Lavieties on Friday for one of the most memorable Princeton games in years. You didn’t need a tattoo to watch Harvard lose on a last-second bucket, thank you very much...
...from his father's Sourland Mountain home in Western New Jersey on the windy night of March 1. Last week the case passed into its third month with the child still missing, the abductors still uncaught. No national wave of kidnapping had followed. Children of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney and Lady Willmott Lewis (daughter of President Frank Noyes of the Associated Press, wife of the London Times's Washington correspondent) had been reported threatened. But the Burns and Pinkerton detective agencies reported no increase in orders for private protection. The U. S. Press and Public...