Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EDITH WYNNER...
...quibble with your indiscriminate use of the word "late" in titling pictures of deceased persons, viz., Father Damien in your Feb. 3 issue, Edith Cavell, Feb. 17, and Josiah Royce, Feb. 24. "Late" means existing recently but not now. "Recent" is relative, to be sure, as is time itself, but would not be applied by our up-to-the-minute newsmagazine in referring to the death of Father Damien in 1889 or of Professor Boyce and Nurse Cavell in World War days. A resolution, please...
Left. By the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, daughter of John Davison Rockefeller: an estate valued at $3,389,244.58; in Chicago...
...life. Therefore he holed himself up with a great collection of books on the manners and customs of primitive and ancient peoples and let the concupiscent, the celibate and the sexually miserable beat a path to his study and tell him all. His marriage in 1891 to bubbling Edith M. O. Lees, who died in 1916, made his sage-in-the-study life practicable. Their only marriage vow was not to deceive one another. They confidently maintained separate homes, and she did not disturb him in his investigations...
Swank young Alfred Duff Cooper, new British Secretary of State for War, lately remarked: "Edith Cavell was a courageous woman whom the Germans were entitled to execute...