Word: edith
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...need to tell you what a wonderful person Marge was," said Edith M. Stokey, recently retired associate academic dean and Lucker's tennis partner. "All of our presence here today is a testimonial to that...
Title IX was signed into law on June 23, 1972, by Richard Nixon as part of a larger bill, the Education Amendments Act, proposed by Oregon Congresswoman Edith Green. Though compliance wasn't required until 1978, Title IX has become one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. When it was first passed, there were 31,000 women participating in intercollegiate athletics. There are now more than 120,000 female athletes in the nation's colleges. A survey by Brooklyn College professors R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter shows that in 1977, a year before Title...
Unfortunately, his insistence on repetition beats his jokes to death. The running gag of the show is the neurotic cockney maid Edith, who is unable to perform her duties at a normal pace. To clear the breakfast trays she needs a running start, and Ruth spends the duration of the play trying to slow her down. The triviality of this detail is magnified enormously as it is repeated, endlessly. Also distracting is the number of times Charles visits the liquor cabinet and meticulously makes dry martinis--stirred, not shaken. The pace of the plot is not quick enough to keep...
...hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona. Charles H. Keating Jr., his head held high, his gangly 6 ft. 5 in. frame clad in rolled-up blue jeans and a Windbreaker, strides in, startling a middle-aged couple at lunch. The man, still in golf togs, drops a steak knife and says, "Edith, I can't believe he's out of prison; it's the guy who built this hotel...
...DIED. EDITH HAISMAN, 100, oldest Titanic survivor; in Southampton, England. In 1912, at age 15, she sailed with her parents on the doomed vessel, and afterward spent a lifetime recalling the night when she and her mother watched from a distant lifeboat as the liner sank, with her father aboard...