Events involving this person
Wealthy New Yorker berates Roosevelt while shaving
Description
He recalls a wealthy only-child in New York City during the last war who hated Roosevelt and told him off in the mirror while shaving every morning, refusing to give up the amusement because no Broadway play gave him as much fun for the money.
Location
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- between 1939 and 1945
- between 1939 and 1945
- between 1939 and 1945
- between 1939 and 1945
- between 1939 and 1945
Told
27 January 1967(refuted)- 4 September 1965 (doubtful)
- 16 July 1968
- 21 February 1969
27 January 1967(refuted)- 2 December 1966 (probable)
Sources
- Source: God Plays All the Parts ¶40 (He said, “Neville, there isn’t a play on Broadway that I can get into for under ten dollars— oh, in a morning I spend, say, five minutes on my face and in five minutes telling him off I have such fun—there’s no play on Broadway running two hours that’s g…)
- Source: Order Your Conversations Aright ¶44 (He said, “Why, Neville, the shows on Broadway today are $10 a seat. There is no show on Broadway that could give me the thrill of those fifteen minutes in the morning when I shave.)
- Source: There Is No Other God ¶28 (I knew a man in New York City during the Second World War. He hated Roosevelt – hated him!)
- Source: I AM the Lord ¶26 (I remember a man in New York City during the Second World War, who claimed he despised Roosevelt. Every morning when the man shaved, he would talk to himself in the mirror, imagining he was telling Roosevelt everything he disliked about him. The gentlema…)
- Source: I Am The True Vine ¶34 (I know that from experience: a man in New York City, in the Second World War, hated President Roosevelt. I said to him, “why do you hate the man?”)
c. 31 October 1944
(probable)
Neville recalls living at 32 Washington Square next door to Roosevelt at 29, and being stopped by police as he came home about a week before the November election of Roosevelt's fourth-term campaign,
before 1964
(possible)
Neville recalls a young man of thirty he knew in New York City who spent ten minutes every morning while shaving telling President Roosevelt off in the mirror, and Neville warning him he was building
before 1970
(possible)
He tells of a man he knew in New York City, born in Brooklyn of Germanic parentage, who spent three minutes every morning before the mirror abusing Roosevelt, whom he had never met; Neville warned him