Word: mama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year was 1905. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt were on their honeymoon, trotting around Europe, buying dresses, furs, linens, rare books and antiques. They were hobnobbing with the great and near-great, but they never forgot to write to Mama. Sara Delano Roosevelt had tried to break up her son's romance with Eleanor; nevertheless, she was an indulgent mother and a friend in time of need. The "thousand thanks" were for an unexpected $500 windfall from...
Both Eleanor's and Franklin's letters, which they wrote as diaries of their trips, together with Mama's answers and letters to and from other members of the Roosevelt clan, are collected in Vol. II of F.D.R., His Personal Letters (edited by son Elliott* and published by Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $5). Vol. I (TIME, Oct. 13, 1947) took F.D.R. from boyhood to young manhood; Vol. II carries him from his honeymoon...
...Sorrow." Franklin and Eleanor were a gay and carefree couple. Franklin went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with...
...Mama always seemed to have something to worry about. "To my sorrow," she wrote from Paris in 1907, "I find . . . that my dear boy's bills are not paid, though two years old. I have today been to the bankers and the bills are paid...
...same. But even though it was a success in London, "George and Margaret" failed when it was seen here in 1937, as often happens with imported hits. Mr. Linenthal describes it as a "pleasant and amusing" play. That much could also be said for "Claudia" and "I Remember Mama," two immense successes--but they do not belong in repertory. There is an uncomfortable suspicion that "George and Margaret" may not either...