| 词汇 | alice blue |
| 词源 | Alice blue. Alice blue is one of several colors named for real people. The shade signalizes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, who favored the pale greenish or grayish blue. Mrs. Longworth is the witty lady who said of Calvin Coolidge: “He looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle.” Princess Alice, as she was called, was born on February 12, 1884; her mother, Alice, died from Bright’s dis- ease, a kidney inflammation, two days after her birth, on the same day that Theodore Roosevelt’s mother died of typhoid fe- ver. On February 17, 1906, Alice married Congressman Nicolas Longworth of Ohio in an elegant East Room wedding in the White House. Mrs. Longworth long remained a leader of Washington society, her name and the color Alice blue ren- dered familiar by the tune “Alice Blue Gown,” which she in- spired. See coolidge effect; i do not choose to run. |
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