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Yet other women criticized the First Lady’s appearance. Her friend Elizabeth Blair Lee said that Elizabeth Todd Edwards “is ten times better looking than [her sister] Mrs. Lincoln.” The abolitionist Lydia Maria Child remarked that Mary Lincoln “looks more like a dowdy washerwoman” than “the ‘representative of fashion.’ ” To Child, the First Lady’s face seemed “mean, and vulgar,” and she pitied Lincoln for “having a fool for a wife.” The only thing “she cares for is flattery, and dress, and parties. Willis’s Home Journal abounds with fulsome compliments about her stylish dressing, her gayeties &c. This is not becoming, when the people are suffering and sacrificing so much.” When Child read about Mrs. Lincoln’s shopping trips, she exclaimed: “So this is what the people are taxed for! to deck out this vulgar doll with foreign frippery. And oppressed millions must groan on, lest her ‘noble native State’ [Kentucky] should take offence, if Government made use of the beneficent power God has so miraculously placed in its hands.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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I told him what a coincidence, Harold, you calling on the very day I finished the new one, gosharooty, how ’bout that, I’ll send it out FedEx, you’ll have it tomorrow. Harold assured me solemnly that there was no coincidence about it, that where his writers were concerned, he was telepathic. Then he congratulated me and hung up. Two hours later I received his bouquet—every bit as fulsome and silky as one of his Jimmy Hollywood ascots.
Source: Bag of Bones ▫𓂃
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