Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the Atlantic in Washington, when Representative Edith Nourse Rogers up-rose in the House to demand fuller revenge for insulted U. S. womanhood than mere "emphatic comment," Minnesota's grizzled Harold Knutson, who voted against War in 1917, replied: "I wonder whether the gentlewoman from Massachusetts speaks from personal knowledge or from propaganda coming from London. ... I can re-call when people here received tales of horror. . . . Didn't we learn something then? Are we going to be worked into a similar frenzy?" Congress, however, was not to be denied the fun of counter-baiting the Brown...
...sentimentality as we have encountered in a long time. Based on an ancient theory that an actor already firmly established as a feminine drawing card, will be twice as appealing in company with a small child, Columbia saddles Mr. Crosby with a weepy, tearstained child named Edith Fellows...
...thoroughly aroused brother and sister took their curious case to court. Proceedings were further complicated by Oliver's shady behavior, by Jane's counter-machinations, by the untoward fact that Edith, Jane's girlhood friend and business partner, who owned a controlling share in Jane's prosperous theatre, fell in love with Oliver. Altogether it took two trials, a dramatic second auction, a happy and an unhappy marriage, brisk detective work and some stiff psychological third degree before the Antigua stamp found its rightful owner...
...Sent to the Rules Committee (over the protest of Chairman O'Connor, who wanted it to go to the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers") a resolution of Massachusetts' Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, calling for an investigation into the possibility of retiring House members...
...sentimentality as we have encountered in a long time. Based on an ancient theory that an actor already firmly established as a feminine drawing card, will be twice as appealing in company with a small child, Columbia saddles Mr. Crosby with a weepy, tear-stained child named Edith Fellows...