Rachel Jackson Slam

Rachel Jackson meets up with Andrew in New Orleans after the battle.  At a dinner party, another guest describes Rachel:  "she is explained by her enormous corpulence that French saying, 'She shows how far the skin can be stretched.' To see these two figures, the general [Andrew Jackson] a long, haggard man, with limbs like a skeleton, and Madame la Generale, a short, fat dumpling, bobbing opposite each other like half-drunken Indians..."