Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opponent's backcourt boundary, thereby failed to win from Wills the national women's singles championship. After the match Wills rested in the Forest Hills, L. I., clubhouse, resumed play. Paired with Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, she won the doubles title against Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper & Miss Edith Cross. Wills and Molla Bjurstedt Mallory are the only women who have won the singles title five or more times. Mallory won it seven times officially, an eighth time in the 1917 "patriotic" (unofficial) tournament...
...Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England, effective Nov. 12. He will be the first bachelor to have held that office for 150 years. Randall Thomas Davidson, present Archbishop of Canterbury, has been married 50 years. November 12 will mark the golden wedding anniversary of his wedding with Edith, second daughter of the late Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1868 to 1882. For that sentimental reason he last week asked his King to accept his resignation. His resignation was without precedent. Heretofore archbishops of Canterbury, ever since Augustine first held that seat (597-605), have quit office...
...first time since the Cradle of Liberty first rocked, a woman spoke in Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Independence Day. She was U. S. Representative (Mrs.) Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, and during her address the cradle rocked again. As became a good Republican, she praised Herbert Clark Hoover. Then, to the surprise of some Bostonians and the delight of others, she said: "I am going to speak of Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. He, too, came of the people. . . . America gave him his chance and he grasped it. He has made good use of that chance...
Soared up last week from Croyden aerodrome, near London, one of the huge trimotored Fokker planes which Financier Loewenstein habitually described as his "flying offices." In the crew's compartment were Pilot Ronald Drew and Mechanic Robert F. Little. In the "office" flew British Stenographer Miss Edith Clarke and French Stenographer Mlle. Paule Bidalon. Also on board were Valet Frederick Baxter Backster and Secretary J. O. Hodgson. Three mighty engines thrashed the air around the plane into a 300 mile an hour gale, thrusting the Fokker across the English Channel at 100 miles per hour...
...burning of the Library of Louvain was a classic "German atrocity," barely surpassed by the shooting of Edith Cavell...