Word: louie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked yourself that before, and the answer isn't far away. You, who have chased jazz through dives you would never ordinarily looked at twice, who have chased jazz through dingy little second stores and haggled over the price of a beat-up Louie Hot Five, who have chased jazz from record store to record store after a cutout Goodman Trio, you have your experience to answer...
Nervous Harry Hopkins missed no lines, dropped no ring, scuffed no shoes. At 18 minutes after twelve, by the mantel clock, the ceremony was over. Franklin Roosevelt took "Louie" Macy Hopkins' hand, kissed her on the cheek...
Just before 2:30, the President moved to his private study. The wedding celebration was over. The guests filed out. "Louie" and Harry Hopkins started on their honeymoon...
After the Lowlands invasion, Louie Macy returned to Manhattan, soon quit Harper's Bazaar to start a swank whole sale dress shop. Her first spring style show was a flat flop. She tried again with a fall & winter collection. This flopped, too, and she turned to being a nurse's aide. She was the model for a recruiting poster prepared by the Office of Civilian Defense...
...Harry Hopkins, at 51, does not look like the kind of man Louie Macy would look at. His face, sallow and lined by illness, is not so much against him socially as his restless, jittery wriggling which keeps his suits wrinkled and baggy. His thin, straggly hair is combed carefully over a growing bald spot...