Word: edith
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treated as an untrustworthy person, you become one." He added that "I felt my decision-making abilities had become affected." Then he hurried off to meet Sons Nedsky, 5, and Barney, 4, who were being flown from London to live with him in the U.S. Acknowledging that his wife Edith may divorce him when she is released in May from a Swiss jail, and that he has debts of nearly $1 million, Irving is, however, back at work, lining up interviews with "people high in government" for publication in New Times...
Even so, Mallary did not think that the sum of evidence now justified impeachment. Some of his constituents were not so cautious. "Most people here are ready to impeach; we're not waiting for the evidence," declared Edith Hunter, a reporter for the Weathersfield Weekly, as she expressed the seething frustration of Mallary's listeners...
...case of Clifford Irving, who is serving a 2½-year sentence for dreaming up an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes and selling it to McGraw-Hill for $765,000. Irving had hoped to spend Christmas with his sons, Nedsky, 5, and Barnaby, 3, especially since their mother Edith is sequestered in a Swiss jail for her part in the hoax. Instead Irving will be sprung on Feb. 14, 1974. It seemed almost as heavyhanded as Irving's own joke, but then the board could have chosen April...
What a life Singer Edith Piaf had! Born in the gutter, lived awhile in a cousin's whorehouse, discovered on a street corner. What a role to play! Brigitte Ariel, 19, a little-known French actress who has played mainly with provincial companies, was chosen for the film version of the bestselling biography by Simone Berteaut, the "Little Sparrow's" half sister. Brigitte, who was nine when Piaf died in 1963, has little in common with the megaphone-voiced singer except her height (4 ft. 11 in.). The songs will be dubbed in. About the part, Brigitte says...
...buff, not blindman's-bluff. David Rounds, with beauty spots on his right chin and left cheek, has great fun with the role of Sparkish, a fop (who has a counterpart in most Restoration comedies), wielding a lorgnon and indulging in an affected speech that suggests a male Edith Evans. These characters and all the others benefit from Jane Greenwood's gorgeous period costumes...