Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London gaunt, shy U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant never gave a party unless he had to. He lived in a quiet house in Mayfair and turned his magnificent Morgan-donated Prince's Gate mansion into a dormitory for girl clerks...
...last week it was the Fourth of July; Winant and the girl clerks were gone; and Prince's Gate rang again with the tinkle of party glasses and the blare of a dance band. G.I.s had come with their girls-a few clerks; a few debutantes, and many a "five-shilling touch" from Piccadilly in full war paint. Hedda Hopper of Hollywood was there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy...
...Roosevelt, dressed in black, and members of her family heard John G. Winant, wartime ambassador to Great Britian and principal speaker at the memorial ceremony, eulogize her late husband as a man who strove tirelessly for world peace while guiding his own country to certain victory...
...countrys only four-time president, Winant said, was "brave, steadfast, one who dared to see the facts, to face them and to act--one who believed, who hoped...
...Second only to President Roosevelt, Mr. Winant has seemed to us the personification of the finest part of America's character. We shall miss that tall, thoughtful, awkward-seeming...