Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Innocence. Here is Edith Wharton's story of the Countess Olenska, eloquently transferred to the stage by Margaret Ayer Barnes. The Countess Olenska returned to Manhattan, leaving her horrible Count in Europe. In Manhattan she met Newland Archer; they fell in love, but Newland married a girl to whom he was engaged. Newland Archer and the Countess nearly ran away together when the horrible Count crossed the ocean to retrieve her; but Newland's wife was too feeble for the Countess, who was sick of cruelties, to injure; so Countess Olenska returned to her Count and Newland Archer...
...days when he was relatively unsophisticated, married Edith Rockefeller and entered the bright, ineluctable world of fame and fashion which awaited him with terrible certainty from the day of his birth. Much later, still a little puzzled by celebrities, and somewhat irked by their cost, he married famed Ganna Walska, who astounded the world by frantic attempts to sing grand opera...
...Beaconsfield Club in Montreal last week Virginia Wilson of Chicago, defeated Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, 5 up and 4 to play for the Canadian women's golf championship. Dora Virtue, of Montreal, was triumphant over Edith Quier, of Reading. Pa., in the second round. The Quier-Virtue score was 2 up, i to play...
...CHILDREN - Edith Wharton - Appleton...
...Author. Distinguished disciple of Henry James, Edith Wharton fills her pages with lucid psychological analyses. She does so with much of the master's charm, none of his diffuseness, some of his greatness. Like him she lives mostly abroad, and writes of the U. S. Daughter of a Rhinelander, she was brought up to winter in Manhattan, summer in Newport, travel in Europe. Her most brilliant work reflects Fifth Avenue society of the '90s (in her House of Mirth, in her Age of Innocence), but oddly enough her masterpiece concerns the passion and remorse of a New England...