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1<br > Alice s Parents<br >Theodore Roosevelt was bound for Harvard. There was never a qucs-<br >tion that the intellectually precocious boy, older of two sons, would go<br >to the school that had become an expected stopping place for boys of<br >his social station.<br > His younger brother would not be following Tccdie, as the future<br >president was called in his family, to Cambridge. The problcms,<br >physical and emotional, that would lead Elliott to severe alcoholism<br >and death at age thirty-four, practically in the arms of his mistress,<br >were already evident. It went without saying in the mid-1870s that<br >Teedie s two sisters, Anna (always called Bamie or Bye), the eldest of<br >the four children, and Corinne, the youngest, would not be college<br >educated.<br > Classmates noted that the sickly looking freshman seemed un-<br >usually nervous--not surprising, given his determination to please his<br >seemingly perfect father. Theodore Senior was a rare combination of<br >a man of good works and good times. Hc helped establish the Chil-<br >dren s Aid Society, the New York Orthopedic Hospital, the Metro-<br >politan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural<br >History. He also loved to dance and tended to be the last to leave<br >parties. He seemed to have limitless energy--he had none of the<br >health problems that plagued all four of his children--and drove his<br >four-in-hand home in the early morning hours at such a fast clip that<br >his grooms "fell out at the corners." During a stay in Civil War<br >Washington, where he worked in a civilian capacity for the Llnion<br >
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Princess Alice, The Life and Times of Alice Roosevelt Longworth 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024