Word: malvina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Full of the eager anticipation which all playgoers (except dramatic critics) share, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt taxied up to New York's Mansfield Theater. With her were her secretary, Malvina ("Tommy") Thompson and a onetime youth leader, pinko Joe Lash. The play they had come to see: In Time to Come. As Mrs. Roosevelt stepped out of her cab, to her horror she came face to face with a picket line...
...music within the little church. First through the door came Mr. Roosevelt on the arm of his military aide, Major General Edwin ("Pa") Watson, his big hand gripping an ivory-headed walking stick. Then came Mrs. Roosevelt and the President's naval aide, Captain John R. Beardall; Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary; Lord and Lady Halifax...
...Blowing hot and cold on this escapist straw in the wind.* Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, now being sponsored over an NBC network by Sweetheart Soap, last week chatted mildly about vacations with her secretary, Malvina Thompson, then, a few days later, inquired of her listeners: How Can People Live-Not Die-for Democracy...