Word: mercerizing
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...giving them only perfunctory treatment. Though both papers are owned by Scripps-Howard, they operate independently. "We decided it would not be fair to pick out individuals in a few selected cases," explained Enquirer Publisher Francis Dale. He had reason. Reporter Horner had discovered that Enquirer Court Reporter Tom Mercer and Columnist Frank Weikel had both served recently as appraisers...
...Character is fate." The Heraclitean precept has been mislaid by a generation of moviemakers more concerned on the whole with their medium than with Man. In this resolutely ordinary yet oddly powerful little picture, a Czech director named Jiří (pronounced Yershee) Weiss, a British scriptwriter named David Mercer...
...romance between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer continued to be the talk of Washington. Since Jonathan Daniels revealed the 30-year romance of the President and his wife's onetime social secretary in The Time Between the Wars, additional details, waves of remembrances and a good deal of gossip have kept the story alive...
Intriguing Romance. The romance cooled in 1918, and then, writes Daniels, "supposedly he ended forever his relations with Lucy Mercer." In 1920, five months before Roosevelt became the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President, Lucy Mercer was wed to a man 30 years her senior, Winthrop Rutherfurd, a New York society figure whose first wife-a daughter of former Vice President Levi Morton-had died in 1917 after bearing him five children. Lucy bore him one daughter...
...save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized...