Word: sara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt went to Texas to visit her grandson, Elliott Roosevelt, who lives with his second wife on a ranch near Fort Worth. Between trains in St. Louis she talked with newshawks about her son in the White House, declared: 'I can't see why anyone should criticize him. He is doing everything he possibly can for everyone." At Fort Worth one of her first queries to Grandson Elliott was: "Do you think your father gets his swims every day? I wish he wouldn't miss so many." Then to news hawks...
...Henry Ford was an apple-cheeked Michigan farm girl named Clara Bryant, she used to go on Sunday mornings to St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church in Detroit, accompanied by her grandfather who stoked the church fires, dusted the pews. First organist at St. Paul's was Sara Angelina Waffle, who on severe winter days had her old-fashioned pump organ pushed up next to the stove to prevent her fingers from becoming numb. Frequently in the course of a sermon Organist Waffle would sidle off her bench to put a stick of wood on the fire...
...Sara Angeline Waffle pumped on the St. Paul's organ for 35 years, gave Clara Bryant her first music lessons, retired in 1915. Last week when she was nearing her 80th birthday, she was back again, stanchly playing Just As I Am Without One Plea. This time, though, she did not have to exert herself at all because there was a new organ in St. Paul's, a Hammond Electric, inscribed: "To the Glory of God and as a tribute and memorial to Sara Angeline Waffle, organist of this parish for the first 35 years of its life...
...wakes she yodels a little song called Early Bird. When she visits the general store to buy brass polish, she pauses for a tap dance in the company of a proficient young villager (Buddy Ebsen). By this maneuver, she unhappily attracts the attention of the new & nasty truant officer (Sara Haden), and the plot begins to thicken. On the grounds that little Star is being carelessly reared, the truant officer will try to take her away from her kindly Captain January, put her in an institution...
...Senator Barkley of Kentucky received a call from the White House one morning canceling his appointment to lunch with the President that day. A preferred luncheon guest, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, had arrived unexpectedly in Washington...