Word: wilsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME (Nov. 6), referring to possible delay in knowledge of election results, said: "The drama of such a situation would have only two parallels in the last 75 years," and recites them-the second Wilson election in 1916 and the Hayes-Tilden contest...
...Wilson (Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Coburn; TIME...
Georgia-born, orphaned Margaret Axson was raised by two remarkable relatives -in childhood by her Aunt Louisa; in adolescence by her brother-in-law Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton. Now, as Margaret Axson Elliott, wife of Princeton's onetime Dean Edward C. Elliott, the sister of the first Mrs. Wilson has recorded her memories of these guardians who taught her the value of principles, courage and tolerance. Readers of My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson are likely to neglect worthy Aunt Louisa, for the interest and value of Author Elliott's unprofessional book are mainly...
...annoyingly cheerful, drink his fruit juice, and glance over the morning paper, making running comments. . . . The rest of the family would file down - sisters, sisters-in-law, female friends - until 'two rows of smiling women' flanked the table. 'I am submerged in petticoats!' Wilson would say, smiling." Between meals, the women of the house rarely saw him. Either he had gone to classes or faculty meetings on his bicycle ("turning the pedals neither too fast nor too slowly, cleanly and precisely as he did everything"), or was locked in his top room working tirelessly...
...lost all interest in promising undergraduates who hung around his girls, gave the "steadies" sarcastic nicknames: "Old Faithful"; "Chronic." He was also shocked at the idea of a young man "lolling" at one end of the telephone and "summoning" a young lady to the other end. "This is Woodrow Wilson speaking," he would enunciate icily. "Can't you walk over?" Then he would emerge from his study slightly ashamed, muttering: "I fancy I've lost you a beau." Sometimes he added: "I can imagine no worse fate for a girl than to marry a man of coarser fibre...