Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reform mayor of Toledo. In 1913 he was appointed Minister to Belgium; in 1919. Ambassador. He was credited with saving many a Belgian life by persuading Brussels not to resist Germany's Wartime invasion, gained fame by his efforts to stay the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell...
With such wise, earnest words Mrs. Edith Halpert, smart mistress of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, this week opened her sixth annual "$100 show." Mrs. Halpert's previous $100 shows suffered from studio remnants. But no critics could spot unwanted leftovers in this week's exhibit. For sale at $100 each were pictures by such U. S. artists as Peggy Bacon, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Fiene, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer and many another. Most of the pictures had been marked down from $300 or more...
Helen R. Brooks, of Centre Newton, Mass, (Radcliffe College, 1934). Lonis A. Cook, Jr. '34, of Sandusky, Ohio, Edith A. Hickey, of Roslindale, Mass (Radcliffe Coll., 1934). Charles D. Keet, of Pretoris, Transvaal, South Africa, A.B. (Transvaal Univ.) 1919; A.M. (Potchesfsiroom Univ.) 1924. Instructor, Boys' High School, Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa, Mae F. Rastall, of Washington. D.C. (Mt. Holyoke Coll...
...BACKWARD GLANCE-Edith Wharton -Appleton-Century ($3). Few writers of any sex or class have been so handicapped as Edith Newbold Jones Wharton. Born a woman, a lady, and rich, she somehow managed to make herself into an almost first-rate author. Few better exhibitions of eating cake and still having it have ever been put on. Now an old lady (72), Author Wharton takes a backward glance over her traveled road, reports in carefully cultivated prose what she has seen along the way. Being a lady, she has forgotten some things and people. Her road, once friendly with many...
...lady or an author, Edith Wharton says: "Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death. . . . But I am born happy every morning...