Word: edith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Efficient Edith Helm, White House social secretary, was momentarily nonplussed. At a press conference someone said he had heard that Bess Truman "used to beat even the boys at mumblety-peg when she was a child in Independence. She used to pull the peg out with her teeth, too." Quickly rallying, Mrs. Helm replied: "That's an esoteric rite of the player. I used to play it myself...
...after 10, the vote was in, and Clement Attlee's government had suffered its first parliamentary defeat: 283 to 257. One exuberant Tory borrowed an old Laborite victory cry. "We are the masters now," he yelled. On the government benches, Morrison flushed and fidgeted. Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill stared blankly into 'space. Only Clement Attlee saw the joke. Attlee threw back his head and roared with laughter. As the defeated Laborites filed from the House, the Tories shouted, "Resign, resign!", waved their handkerchiefs in farewell...
After athletics were largely transferred to Soldiers Field in 1898, the building was put to other uses and was renamed for Annie Rotch and her children, Edith and Arthur, contributors to the Lawrence Scientific School...
...Harry Truman and Bess, too warm in a mink cape and navy blue taffeta, tried in vain not to steal the show. They wanted to be as inconspicuous as any of the other 1,100 guests at the wedding of Treasury Secretary John Snyder's hearty, handsome daughter Edith ("Drucie") to John Ernest Horton, a personable former White House social aide, soon to be a movie pressagent. Drucie's best friend, Margaret Truman, was maid of honor...
...Married. Edith Cook ("Drucie") Snyder, 24, only child of Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; and Major John Ernest Horton, 30, White House aide; he for the second time (first wife: Cinemactress Frances Rafferty) ; in Washington...