Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other putts, of course, had contributed to this result, particularly some made by Edith Cummings, Mary K. Browne, Dorothy Campbell Kurd (late titleholder), Bernice Wall of Oskosh, and Alexa Stirling Fraser. It was by deadly putting that a certain Mrs. Letts of Illinois put out Mrs. Hurd. Miss Cumming's uncertainty with her littlest club was her only demonstrable inferiority to Miss Collett in a semi-final match so close that neither was at any time more than one up, but by that score Miss Collett won. Mrs. Fraser, as Alexa Stirling, three time national champion, long ago demonstrated...
...Chicago, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, recently offered a prize. She would give $1,500, not to mention consolation prizes, for the best name suggested for a 1,500-acre town some real estate men were organizing in the interests of the Rockefeller-McCormick Trust. Names poured in: "Edithwatha," "Edithsdream," "Edithport," "Edithton City," "Lakrenda," "Shadowwood," "Eden Pier," "Krenado Beach" (after Architect Krenn). A Chinaman from Madison, Wis., suggested "Elysians." W. R. Hearst of Maywood, Ill., received a prize of $5 for an inferior title. But a touch of genius fired one Elmer H. Huge of La Porte...
Married. William Faversham, 57, famed actor, secretly to Edith Campbell, 39, actress, daughter of onetime Mayor Joseph Campbell of Phoenix, Ariz.; at Huntington, L. I. This is Mr. Faversham's third marriage; he was divorced from the late Marian Merwin Faversham many years ago. His second wife, Julie Opp, famed actress, bore him two sons, died in 1921. Harry J. Walker, for many years manager of the Belasco Theatre, Manhattan, was Miss Campbell's first husband...
...nervous stamina that has made Mrs. Mallory six times champion of the U. S. With the loss oi only three points, she won the next three games, the match, the Rhode Island championship. Miss Mary K. Browne and Miss Goss defeated Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup and Miss Edith Sigourney for the doubles titles, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Mrs. Jessup and W. W. Ingraham took the mixed doubles...
...located in bold print on the atlas, the travelers emerged from their cars, sighed with admiration, took snapshots, bought and addressed post-cards-"Dear Harriet: Just dandy out here. Wish you were with us. Arrived at 4:37 and leave tomorrow morning at 9:22. Love to all. Edith"-and went to dine in a body at the biggest hotel. When the train moved on, games of double canfield began again; diaries were brought up to date, magazines were fished out, idle moments were devoted to picturing in advance the wonders of Seattle, where all were going; the excitement...