Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief events at White Court were calls by notables: Athletes from Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge called; Senator and Mrs. Edge dropped in as they motored up to Bath, Me., and left cards; Representative Edith Nourse Rogers, recently elected (TIME, July 13, WOMEN), paid a visit. Italian Ambassador Giacomo and Signora Antonnietta de Martino left cards on their way to the Italian summer embassy at Beverly, Mass...
...other candidate was Republican Edith Nourse Rogers, widow of John Jacob Rogers, Representative, who died last March after an operation. She served with the Red Cross in France during the War. Since then, she has been personal representative of the President to visit the hospitals of the wounded...
...Author. William Gerhardi, British-born in Petrograd, Oxford graduate, only slightly elaborates his own biography in Georges Diabologh of The PoIyglots, the writing of which has occupied his last two years in some secluded Tyrolese hamlet. He dedicates the book to Edith Wharton because, when he published Futility (with the aid of the late Katherine Mansfield), Mrs. Wharton, to whom he was a stranger, wrote: "Do, for the sake of all of us, keep it up!" His one other book, Anton Chechov: A Critical Study, has, as a critical study, no peer...
...have long wanted to see her play. Besides, her stern decision makes no reference to informal matches. She might, hoped many, come over some day with her ex-Brritish Amateur Champion brother, Roger, and have a friendly world's brother-sister championship with the Chicago Cummingses, ex-National Champion Edith and ex-Intercollegiate Champion Dexter...
Born. To Giorgio Polacco, 50, musical director and chief conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and Mrs. Polacco (Edith Mason), 32, famed soprano, a daughter; in Milan, Italy...