Word: edith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beverly Nichols once said of Britain's three writing Sitwells?Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell?that they had genius enough for two. If Sacheverell's latest book does not show the full two-thirds that is his family share, it does reveal him as a conscientious, able biographer who has brought back to life one of music's grandest, most glittering figures?Franz Liszt...
...Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage was practically wiped out by the efficient German counter-espionage service which effected the capture of Edith Cavell, the youthful artillery captain with a knowledge of all the needful languages became the man of the hour. He was sent to Holland, given unlimited authority and funds, so long as he could produce results...
...include big, smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly...
...Nurse Edith Cavell, as every British heroine worshipper should know, was a smuggler of men. She was shot for heroically smuggling Allied soldiers out of territory occupied by the Imperial German Armies. Exactly similar was the work of two French heroines, Louise de Bettignies and Marie Léonie van Houtte. Louise died in a German prison. Last week with all possible Paris pomp Marie was married...
...appeared she always wore a single one high on the left shoulder." Thus did the late Irwin H. ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, describe in the Satevepost the nine-month courtship and marriage in 1915 of the 28th President of the U. S. and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait...