Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pappy, don't you do it," said Edith...
Pappy chased her out of the bedroom and grabbed a carving knife. "Pappy, don't you cut me," said Edith...
...Edith fell to the floor and fumbled for a pair of old high-heeled shoes she had given her Ma. She flailed out with one of them. Pappy fell back. Edith, half-naked from the fight, caught up a covering, ran out of the house. She could hear Pappy moaning: "Jesus, Jesus, why can't a man whip his own child?" He was soon dead from the beating Edith gave...
...prosecutor tried to show that Edith was a fast filly who had saddened her honest mountaineer father with her late hours and citified ways. But he could not shake her story of the fight. It was further corroborated by 11-year-old Sister Mary Catherine who, when twitted by the prosecutor for forgetting certain details, leaned out of the witness chair and yelled: "And you wouldn't remember so good either if you had been as scared as I was that night with Pappy a-yellin' and a-cussin' and Edith a-tryin' to outrun...
...Edith. Marchioness of Londonderry, a fresh start was not to be made so easily as by buying an old inn with raftered ceilings and picturesque narrow stairs. One of the noblest mansions in all London is historic Londonderry House. There Mr. MacDonald, after he was considered by the Labor Party to have betrayed it and gone over to Pride & Privilege, found a new home so warm and bright with the glamor of Mayfair that the least he could do in return as Prime Minister, was to take Edith's husband into the Cabinet (TIME...