Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine months later Miss Edith Louisa Cavell was shot by the Germans because she admitted using her Red Cross prerogatives to shelter and further the escape of some 200 Allied soldiers, prisoners of the Germans. The revelation prompted a search for more hidden Allied soldiers. One day a German captain came to search the house of Mme. Belmont-Gobert...
...Elmira, N. Y., Edith M. Stewart, Elmira College senior, drank poison; friends said because she feared suspension for having attended a dance at nearby Cornell University without permission...
Sirs: I have just received the letter from Florence, Italy, you forwarded to me, stat ing that Contessa Edith Rucellai, of Palazzo Rucellai, Florence, is assembling an Inter national Exhibition of cartoons and caricatures for the benefit of a Florentine charity, and would like to have the U. S. represented. In view of the fact that the countess learned of the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists through TIME, we hope you will announce that the Association would be glad to receive and forward original cartoons and caricatures done by any professional artist. No ceremony or fee is attached...
Divorced. Edith Day, 30, comedienne, from Patrick Somerset, 29, English actor, by default, in Minneapolis, though she was in London, he in Hollywood, Calif. They first appeared together in 1920 in the English production of Irene. She charged that he was "continually drunk," used "vile and indecent" language, struck...
...decades ago he came to the U. S. from Italy, lavished his talent on scattered engagements. In 1915 he substituted for Toscanini as chief conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Later he was called to assist the great Cleofonte Campanini as director of the Chicago Opera, married Edith Mason, singer. Now he makes music out of even La Cena Delle Beffe...