Word: edith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best art works possible. . . . They backed up their enthusiasm by sending a liberal check to cover the cost of the project." Pieces in Mr. Barrie's shipment were by John F. Carlson, George Elmer Browne, John Gregory, Charles H. Davis, Frederick Ballard Williams, Harriett W. Frishmuth, Hobart Nichols, Edith B. Parsons, Edward McCartan, Mario Korbell. The total art sales of the fair were about...
...enthusiasm for her latest book is unqualified. One of Ours, her story of the War, which was awarded one of the Pulitzer Prizes last year, I did not care for. It is not nearly so wise a book as Edith Wharton's poignant A Son at the Front or Thomas Boyd's Through the Wheat. A Lost Lady, however, is a character study of strength and beauty. The story of a highstrung, attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture...
...Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, the second wife of President Roosevelt (married in 1886, two years after the death of his first wife). During her husband's terms in the White House she was very retiring and has been even more so since that time. Nevertheless, at the time of President Harding's entrance to office she was proposed (by the Portia Club) as a member of the Harding Cabinet. In 1919 Andrew Carnegie left her an annuity of $5,000, and in the same year by act of Congress she was given letter franking privileges. Since her husband...
...LL.B. ever given to a woman. Today woman lawyers, though few in numbers compared to men, can be found throughout the fabric of the legal world. From Mabel Walker Willebrandt (one of the United States Assistant Attorney Generals), Judge Florence E. Allen (on the Ohio Supreme Bench), and Edith Newman (advisor to General Crowder in drafting Cuban banking laws) to a multitude of women in private law offices, they are scattered everywhere. When the first convention assembles at Minneapolis, it will have for President Miss Emilie M. Bullowa, of the firm of Bullowa & Bullowa, New York (the rest...
Just as some of the costumes hark back to ancient times, so does much of the comedy. Jimmy Hussey is largely responsible for the attempted fun-making. Also on the list are Arnold Daly (his debut in a revue), Carlotta Monterey, Edith Taliaferro, Marie Nordstrom...