Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delighted with the co-operation of such an intelligent subject, Edith Louise Potter of Lying-In's staff investigated the family history, presented her findings last week in the Journal oj Heredity. Five generations of the inquiring young woman's family had the abnormal ears-mother, grandfather, great-grandmother, great-great-grand-father. The lop-eared patriarch had 91 descendants, of whom 21 inherited his ears. Everyone affected had both ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped...
...Died. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 75, novelist; after an apoplectic stroke; at her villa near Saint-Brice-Sous-Forêt, France. Edith Jones was born into a socially prominent New York family which discouraged her early attempts at writing, although when she was 15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed...
...Leftists stepped onetime U. S. Army Pilot Harold Dahl. A secretary offered him a contract at $1,500 per week to act as an instructor of Leftist fliers in Spain. The contract provided that Pilot Dahl's wages be paid outside of Spain directly to his bride, Mrs. Edith Rogers Dahl, who used to appear with Crooner Rudy Vallee's band. After signing, Pilot Dahl was sent to Mexico, provided there with a passport showing him to be a Spaniard by the name of Hernandez Diaz. Bridegroom Dahl sailed for Spain and Bride Dahl settled down...
...taken by the House itself. To the surprise and jubilation of the repeal forces the Cochran amendment was rejected. Straight repeal was voted, 203-to-129, and the bill was sent to the Senate, where its passage was expected. Broad smiles spread on the battle-scarred visages of Edith Nourse Rogers, Mary T. Norton, Caroline O'Day. Faraway looks came into the big, beautiful eyes of Government stenographers as they began to dream again of legal love...
...whose residents are people like the Owen Davises and Arthur Byrons, first families of the U. S. stage. Under oldtime Director Melville Burke, a permanent troupe of performers like Owen Davis Jr., Mary Rogers and Ben Lackland will help guest players like James Rennie, Blanche Yurka, Jean Dixon and Edith Barrett put on plays like The Wild Duck, Reno and Tovarich...