Word: one-woman
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...one of Mussolini's newspapers complained: "Mrs. Roosevelt writes too much . . . is a bad influence." From Italy's viewpoint, she surely is, for she cultivates vast areas of political soil plowed and sowed by her husband. Yet in saying, "I have taken no part in politics since Franklin's election" she is not wholly inaccurate. She operates quite apart from the President, behind and beneath what is commonly called "politics." Stories that she influences his policies and appointments are as untrue as stories that he tries to edit her conduct. She is a one-woman show...
Caroline was intelligent and attractive. Her doctor-husband Maurice was a nice fellow though not very demonstrative. She had a daughter and a pleasant little English cottage. She painted well enough to give one-woman exhibitions in London. Then her husband's old school friend, Peter Stanley, took a cottage near them. He wanted quiet to write a book in, country air to breathe. The three saw a lot of each other; Caroline painted Peter's picture. All of a sudden Caroline found she was in love with him. But she was pretty sure she still loved...