Word: rivington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little New Deal. After World War I, he married Constance Rivington Russell, whose father was the wealthy law partner of Eleanor Roosevelt's father. They settled down in a rambling white frame Colonial house in Concord. There Winant took up his political career. He scorned political machines, political patronage, was a dismal campaigner. But New Hampshire was ripe for his liberal, common-man political philosophy. He got elected to the State Legislature; in 1925 he beat Colonel Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, for Governor, broke the New Hampshire anti-third-term tradition...
...Christian morals that they pay their respects to every Sunday morning when they don't have too big a hangover." In parsing Sammy, he tries to find the Glick goal and comprehend the Glick means, even returns to Sammy's grubby childhood surroundings in Manhattan's Rivington Street, a thickly packed Jewish section...
...thrilled as she. Selected to lead a reception committee up the yacht's gangplank, Mrs. Jessie Byron, daughter of Florida's Governor Frederick Preston Cone, gasped: "No. 1, dear me, I can't stand it." She faded back into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings...