Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Pauline Frederick, U. S. cinemactress, was "recalled" to the U. S. last week and her place in the Edith Cavell film, now being "shot" in Belgium, was given to Sybil Thorndyke, English actress, a mighty hullabaloo went up on all sides-but it was all about Edith Cavell, the British nurse that the Germans shot as a spy on Oct. 12, 1915, not about Pauline Frederick...
...accorded only U. S. Presidents, kings, queens and-as despatches put it-"others of real distinction." Prince Wilhelm of Sweden was allowed to go quietly, almost unnoticed, through Chicago streets to breakfast at the Cliff Dweller's Club with Julius Rosenwald, John Tinney McCutcheon,* Samuel Insull, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick...
...could overlook the King Albert memorial on a distinct promise that it would never occur again, but deliberately to repeat the crime in the Queen Victoria work and Nurse Edith Cavell monument makes one shudder...
...placid airings, last year whipped up its horses with a $10,000 prize for "the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description," submitted by any writer, "whether born in London or Indianapolis." Readers looked for some tranquil, mildly effeminate tale, perhaps modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters energetically alive, scampering into unexpected breaches of decorum. More than that, this book is one of the few important literary works which has come out of Canada in many a year...
...There is no outstanding figure in women's golf comparable to Helen Wills in tennis. Alexa Stirling dominated ten years ago, winning in 1916, 1919, 1920 (no tournament 1917 and 1918). In 1921, Marion Hollins won the championship ; 1922, Glenna Collett; 1923, Edith Cummings; 1924, Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Kurd ; 1925, Glenna Collett; 1926, Mrs. G. Henry Stetson...