Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sober Woodrow Wilson liked to put on a record in the Oval Room after dinner and practice a jig step, envied minstrel dancers because they "took on no more at their hearts than they could kick off at their heels." Another diversion of the 28th President of the U. S.: after long White House receptions he "loved to get upstairs and twist his face about. . . . He could make his ears move and elongate his face or broaden it in a perfectly ludicrous...
...exhibition at Worcester. Enriched by 44 pictures from public and private collections in Belgium, it was the first sizable, over-all show of 15th, 16th, and 17th-Century Flemish painting ever held in the U. S. Jointly responsible for it were the Worcester Museum's affable, oval Director Francis Henry Taylor and Assistant Director Henri Marceau of the Philadelphia Museum. They succeeded last summer in getting the help of Léo van Puyvelde, distinguished, bluntspoken* director of the Royal Museums of Belgium, who accompanied the show to Worcester...
...summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray, Donna Read is married at last. Her mother couldn't stop her this time. . . . McKinley Schumpf ate too much peanut butter Wednesday and was out of school Thursday with...
...Into the oval study on the second floor of the White House trooped the Washington press corps, in response to a summons promising them "the greatest human interest story" in the six years of the Roosevelt Presidency. There they found Franklin Roosevelt, beaming but serious. He had just been host to an impressive array of luncheon guests: Historians Charles A. Beard, Frederic L. Paxson, William E. Dodd. Samuel Eliot Morison; President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina and President Edmund Ezra Day of Cornell; Economist Stuart Chase and Poet Archibald MacLeish; Mr. Roosevelt's biographer, Ernest...
...answered questions good-naturedly and quickly-I wonder if there's a question in the world that would make him 'hem and haw.' . . He had on a dark blue suit with a very faint stripe, a white shirt and a dark blue tie with a small oval figure...