Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edith Cummings, Chicago...
...Mexican and Alaskan tournaments, Glenna Collett of Providence is women's golf champion of North America. The little national champion crossed over into Canada with seven other American women, mixed with Britishers and Canadians, whirled through the lot to the Canadian women's open title. In beating Edith Leitch of England, 5 and 4, Miss Collett ticked off the first nine in 37. In the semi-finals she disposed of Alexa Stirling, 3 and 2. Mrs. W. A. Gavin of England, defending titleholder, met her at the last, but Glenna received congratulations on the 34th green...
...Author. Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a New Yorker by birth and a cosmopolitan by inclination. She was born in 1862 and has been in the literary limelight for almost 25 years (her first book, The Greater Inclination, was published in 1899). Most of her novels, which include The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, The Glimpses of the Moon, deal with the so-called upper classes at home or abroad, but her masterpiece, Ethan Frome, is a grim little tragedy of character laid in a New England village. For a number of years she has resided in France...
...FRONT?Edith Wbarton? Scribner...
...mother is Edith Ayrton Zangwill, daughter of a professor and herself an authoress. But I attended only elementary schools and am practically self-educated. Yet I became a teacher, and later a journalist. One of my early books was The Big Bow Mystery, written to prove that it is possible to concoct a detective story in which the criminal cannot be detected by the reader until the last chapter. But it is not typical of my work. I am known as the first interpreter of the London Ghetto. Children of the Ghetto, Jinny the Carrier and The Melting...