Word: theo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landon, no woman has any more right to be called "Theo" than she has to play the harp. The wife of the Kansas governor must take the rap on both points. But that isn't all. She also goes around one week before the election, one week during which she could be saving the American way of life, saying, "Oh, no, I'm not worried about the election. My children keep me too busy for that." It's remarks like that that undermine American democracy. Harpo Marx also plays the harp, but you won't catch him not worrying about...
...campfire with her father; 2) posed on a porch rail with her father; 3) ate a picnic supper with her father; 4) tossed snowballs with her father; 5) rode horseback with her father; 6) walked out on a jutting mountain ledge with her father. With quiet, handsome Mrs. Theo Cobb Landon fully occupied by her bouncing babies, Nancy Jo and Jack, it was plain that by autumn Peggy Anne Landon's face would be even more familiar to the U. S. public than Daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall's became in the summer...
Rich old Trinity Church, whence such bishops as William Thomas Manning have been elevated, has seven satellite chapels, snug berths which are insulated against penury as well as against inordinate theo logical liberalism. Grey-haired, good-looking Dr. Sutton became curate of Trinity Chapel 22 years ago after having been headmaster of St. Paul's School in Baltimore. Made vicar, he was nearly elected suffragan bishop of New York in 1921. Dr. Sutton is a bachelor. Inside his small parish he devoted himself to friendly pastoral visiting. Outside it he demonstrated interest in causes like the Society for Promoting...
...Theo Gidlin, self-appointed leader of the St. Louis County delegation, surveyed the ramshackle day coaches of the party's special train, cried: "The Government promised us sleepers and we bargained for sleepers. We'll get them in Omaha or know the reason...
...years ago "Alf" Landon was a young independent oil man of considerable means. Five years ago, a widower, he married Miss Theo Cobb who has one of the largest collections of Westward Ho glass in the U. S. Since then he has become the father of two children and has twice been elected Governor of Kansas. Politicians would not be surprised to see him turn up at next year's Republican convention wheeling 100 or more Landon-pledged delegates in his perambulator...