Word: edith
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...Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young men moved in expatriate circles that included well-known cultural figures. Writers and modern-art patrons Leo Stein and his sister Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton and British Gothic writer Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, whom novelist Henry James, himself a frequent visitor to Italy, called "the most intelligent person in Florence") all clustered in the Tuscan town...
...hunched figure in the somber black dress appears everywhere in Paris on billboards and cinema marquees. Her thin, outstretched arms seem to beckon onlookers closer. She bears no name nor reveals even a glimpse of her face. But no clues are needed: this iconic silhouette can belong only to Edith Piaf...
...serve as a non-resident joint fellow at the Institute of Politics and the Shorenstein Center. There was substantial competition to garner the fellowship—which funds research projects addressing the influence of the press on public politics—according to Shorenstein Center Fellows and Programs Administrator Edith Holway, There were fourty-five applicants this semester and fellows were “selected on the currency of their proposal” and in light of past projects, Holway said. Douglass, who became interested in politics while working on a political campaign as a college senior, will examine...
...across a curious file previously not indexed: a cache of letters written by Anne Frank's father, Otto. The roughly 80 documents, including considerable correspondence from Otto Frank to friends, family and officials, reveal just how desperately Mr. Frank-who survived the Holocaust-was trying to save his wife Edith, his mother-in-law Rosa Hollander and his daughters Margot and Anne...
...What followed was a brief period known as the “Monarchy.”“Because the new Board was not elected, we ratified an interim, emergency set of by-laws declaring HRG&SP a monarchy, with me as King and my sister, [Edith S. Marshall ’74] as heir apparent,” Marshall writes.The decision was ratified and accepted by Harvard. “For one full year, I received official correspondence addressed to ‘Jack Marshall, King of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players...