Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King. But the real star is the Old Vic's Irene Worth, a Nebraska girl who went to England a decade ago and came back (she was last seen with Guinness in Manhattan in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party) sounding more English than Edith Sitwell. She plays Helena as if she meant it with all her heart; her love for a fool is convincing, her distress in a farcical predicament truly moving, and her every word audible, even above the tooting of passing trains...
...volume. Scribner simply searched through its files for classics and picked 22 written between 1881 and 1931. All the stories in the Scribner Treasury "won immediate public favor" when they first appeared, however, and the demand for them "has never ceased." Among the storytellers in the collection: Edith Wharton, John Galsworthy, Thomas Nelson Page, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Ring Lardner and Sir James Barrie. Among the other Scribner storytellers notably passed over: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemingway...
...Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes, a French woman who is not as bad as she seems undoes an American who is almost too good to be true. In Galsworthy's The Apple Tree, a middle-aged Englishman remembers a long-ago love affair and the dead Welsh girl who was too innocent-hearted for his propriety. In Page's The Burial of the Guns, the men of a Confederate battery decide what they must do after they hear the news of Appomattox. In Mary Andrews' The Perfect Tribute, Abraham Lincoln learns from a dying Southern...
...three. He puts in long hours as boss of the Lincoln-Mercury division, has not had time for a round of golf in two years. But he finds time to cruise on Lake St. Clair on weekends in his 42-ft. cabin cruiser with his wife, the former Edith McNaughton of Detroit, and their two children. Like Henry, Ben has also developed into an able speaker. "When we decided it was time for him to make a speech to the Washington dealers," Ernie Breech recalls, "he stammered and stumbled, and I think he would have fallen on his face...
Britain's Lady of Letters Dr. Edith Sitwell, 65, returned to London from a three-month stint of scriptwriting in Hollywood. Her reaction: "Hollywood is quite delightful. So quaint. So quiet and unspoiled. The people are so modest and friendly. The people I had to deal with were so very cultured...