Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Mrs. Edith Wharton (née Jones of New York), a vigorous lady of 63, seldom leaves the cosmopolitan stream of charming and distinguished people constantly passing through her villa at Hyères on the Mediterranean and her house in Paris. Since 1899, she has been known as the most apt pupil Novelist Henry James ever had-a pupil with a score of polished books to her credit, including one American masterpiece, Ethan Frame...
...MOTHER'S .RECOMPENSE-Edith Wharton-Appleton...
...contention by never asking who his father was until the old scalawag himself, white-haired and green-backed, walked into the hotel, demanded a room. In act two, somebody shot the old fellow in the stomach. Who? What dastard was responsible? Not even the excellent performance of one Edith King, or the dramatic disclosures made by a female detective who had been disguised throughout as "Belinda, a parlormaid," could convince the audience that the right man, in the end, had been apprehended...
...Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai 3. To Perdita Repper 4. Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius 5. Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov 6. Jota from "Hispana" Stoessel-Jacchia 7. "By the Waters of Minnetonka" Lieurance 8. Fantasia, "Lohengrin" Wagner 9. Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin 10. Prelude Religious Edith Lang 11. Entrance of the Boyards Halvorsen
First, she was Edith Boiling of Wytheville, Va., of an ancient family, descendant in the ninth generation of Pocahontas...