Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dame Edith Sitwell has declared that she was so impressed by this royal command that for many years after, when told by a pulmonary physician to "say 99," the best she could bleat...
...EDITH S. ROMBERG...
...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Angel; $9.98). Dame Edith Evans, Sir John Gielgud, Pamela Brown and Celia Johnson give Wilde's farce a reading that may never be matched...
...EDITH SITWELL (Columbia Literary Series; Caedmon,$5.95). In a voice like a medieval lute from which she plucks dainty abstractions, the English poetess reads, in the first record, excerpts from A Poet's Notebook and An Old Woman; in the second, to be released in May, excerpts from The Canticle of the Rose and Facade...
...years. In 1941 all records were smashed when a crowd of 53,258 turned up at the White House (ten were grounded with heat exhaustion, four fainted, and 73 children got mislaid). The following year egg rolling was banned because of the war. After the war Mrs. Edith Helm, the White House social secretary, denounced egg rolling as "an orgy of wasted eggs," announced that President Truman would not revive it. But two years ago, egg rolling made a triumphant reappearance at the White House at the suggestion of Mamie Eisenhower, who thought it was a pleasant and harmless...