Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Also to the White House last week went another young man, well-dressed and with a manner. His wife and two children were with...
People who have visited the Hoovers in or out of the White House realize that Mrs. Hoover's "at-homeness" is not a commonplace quality. It is the product of wide education, travel, association with big-calibre people in many lands. A small-town publisher's wife and a small-town lawyer's wife have been succeeded by a cosmopolite's wife...
...Washington, as wife of the U. S. Food Administrator, she invented the Hoover apron, started the "cash-and-carry" movement, planned and built temporary houses for girl clerks...
...Vernon Kellogg, wife of the scientist, and Mrs. Mark Sullivan, wife of the newsman, are other friends of Mrs. Hoover who have entered the White House circle...
Among the guests invited were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...