Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spinster Daughter Edith Marie, 45, last week was indicted for hoarding...
...Couzens; and Margaret Lang Couzens; a third son, sixth child; in Detroit. Weight: 10 Ib. 8 oz. Engaged. Grace Green Roosevelt, 22, only daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., eldest granddaughter of the 26th President of the U. S.; and William McMillan. 28. Baltimore architect, yachtsman, big-game hunter. Engaged. Edith Cummings, 34, one-time (1923) women's national golf champion, equestrienne and big game hunter, last spinster of Chicago's famed Wartime ''Big Four" socialite beauty quartet;* and Curtis B. Munson, 41, War veteran, mining engineer; in Chicago. Married. Aidan Roark, Irish-born po loist, back...
...jammed the front rows that one eager bidder at the rear of the hall had to perch on the back of a chair with a pair of binoculars and signal his bids as he got the range. On sale were the furniture, jewelry, silverware and clothing of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick, eccentric daughter of pious John Davison Rockefeller...
...life & times of Edith Rockefeller McCormick are Chicago history. Most colorful of the Rockefeller children, her wedding to Harvester Scion Harold McCormick in 1895 was only surpassed in national interest by the marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough the same year. In Chicago she succeeded Mrs. Potter Palmer as social arbiter, gave vast and lavish parties, backed the Chicago opera for years before Insull. She used to buy dresses six at a time, all the same model. She thought nothing of spending $25,000 for roses to bower her ballroom. Suffering from a nervous disorder...
...President Wilson's three daughters, Spinster Margaret and Eleanor McAdoo live. Neither was among the Foundation banqueteers, nor was Mr. McAdoo, who had flown from California to take his seat in the Senate this week. But present was Widow Edith Boiling Gait Wilson (second wife) who chatted and shook hands with another great Wartime leader, pale old General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing. Also there was Francis Bowes Sayre, the other Wilsonian son-in-law whom President Roosevelt had made Assistant Secretary of State. His two children, Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. and Eleanor Axson Sayre, laid a wreath...