Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plane and train from all over the U. S. gathered the Roosevelt clan, some two dozen strong-with newest grandson, eight-month-old John Roosevelt Boettiger, coming East to take his first look at his famous grandfather. Ready as always was Grandmother Eleanor, her activities for the holiday week scheduled to the minute-six public Christmas tree ceremonies, three religious services, three celebrations in New York City, three separate White House children's parties...
Ready were the traditional red stockings that every Roosevelt, child and grownup, hangs over the fireplace in the President's second-floor bedroom. On Christmas Eve, after the children have kissed "Grandpa" good night, the elder Roosevelts stuff the stockings. Into each toe goes a toothbrush, a nailfile, a gaily wrapped bar of soap-vestiges of a custom that Mrs. Roosevelt began, as a sugar-coated reminder of cleanliness, when her six-footer sons were little tads...
...White House Christmas settles into its stride on Christmas Eve. In the afternoon the President will make a brief national broadcast, and light the National Community Christmas tree. After dinner Franklin Roosevelt, a longtime lover of Tiny Tim, reads aloud to his family Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol...
This year Mrs. Roosevelt may have crossed her fingers. Thus far there has been no sign of chickenpox or tonsillitis (Sister & Buzzie Dall, 1932), sinus (Franklin Jr. 1936) or other ill hap. On hand will be still-ailing Harry Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, and his bright-eyed, motherless daughter, Diana, 7. And last to open her stocking-by custom-will be the President's 85-year-old mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, still the belle of the Hudson Valley...
...seat him at eye level with those who file by him at official handshaking functions. Terribly tiring are all White House receptions, but worst is the diplomatic reception, social high light of the Washington winter season. With the aid of the "Siege Perilous"-so dubbed by Washington wits-Franklin Roosevelt came paint-fresh through the exhausting ordeal...