Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...typical German aristocrat, medium height, portly but not adipose, with an attractive genial face and sharp eyes. Of all his traits, perhaps his devotion to his family was the most marked. He was to be seen everywhere not only with his wife, but with his daughter, Edith, to whom he was warmly attached. In his work he was unusually tactful, firm and independent. His genius for diplomacy, his skill and farsightedness won him the respect of statesmen far beyond the frontiers of Germany. Simple and unaffected in speech, he exuded an earnestness and sincerity that marked him as capable...
...hole on the afternoon 18, the gallery shook their heads sympathetically for Mrs. Horn. But Mrs. Horn refused to consider her plight seriously, and, cigarets and all, she took the women's national championship back with her to Kansas City, the first time it has been west since Edith Cummings...
...evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young women any generous author of light fiction should feel a lasting debt of gratitude. Very well, then, such shall be Mr. Oppenheim's heroine; her name, just plain Edith Brown...
...Story. Edith Brown, lost in a fog, sits down on Colonel Dessiter's steps. He, about to die, asks her in. Is she by chance a typist? Thank goodness! Will she please take down this story, great danger though it will place her in? Yes, yes, Miss Brown fears nothing in life. For the next three hours she lives in a hair-raising world of super-romantic adventure. Colonel Dessiter has possession of the worldwide schemes of the Communists including the Chinese situation, India, Europe, the U. S.?everywhere. Now Miss Brown has possession of them too and since...