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Word: edithe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...homely husband detested it, enjoys an elegant moment of respite in her pansy velvet gown, serene in the knowledge that her exquisite little fan and parasol would be the envy of many a prairie lady back home in Illinois. Lucretia Garfield stands resolutely erect, prepared for tragedy. Edith Carow Roosevelt placidly reads her book. Only the faintest notes of discord jar the harmony among the ghostly ladies in the Smithsonian gallery. Pale Ellen Axson Wilson has joined Mmes Taft and Roosevelt in their glass case, while her successor, Edith Boiling Gait Wilson stands with Florence Kling Harding and Grace Goodhue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eleanor Everywhere | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...Wytheville, Va. a girl child named Edith Boiling was born in 1872 with the noteworthy distinction of being a descendant (in the ninth generation) of Pocahontas. In 1915 she acquired further distinction by becoming the third woman in history* to marry a U. S. President while he was in office. Last week as sole proprietor of a famed 131-year-old business she acquired distinction for business ideals. When the present Widow Wilson married Norman Gait in 1896 she married the scion of an established institution. The jewelry firm of Gait & Bro. was founded in Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Noblesse Oblige | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...Bermuda. She refused to discuss her engagement to Italian Enzo Fiermonte, onetime boxing instructor to her sons, who fortnight ago accused Vincent Astor, Mrs. Dick's stepson and President Roosevelt's good friend, of using "influence" to keep him out of Bermuda and the U. S. Indignant Edith Searle, Mrs. Dick's English secretary, told newshawks: "What a hungry mob of vultures you are! What dirty dogs! What torturers and persecutors!" Still suffering from a broken arm incurred two months ago in Bermuda, Mrs. Dick was carried from the ship on a stretcher, to a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 13, 1933 | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...Wellesley Theatre Group will present John Dryden's "All For Love" as its first production of the year. The tryouts for this play, which is to be under the direction of Miss Edith M. Smaill, were held yesterday evening in Phillips

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pick Three Harvard Men For Cast of Radcliffe Play | 11/11/1933 | See Source »

...John Fritz Medal (No. 1 U. S. engineering award), for his pre-eminence "in the fields of hydraulics and water supply, fire insurance economics and analysis of earthquake effects." Sued. Harold Fowler McCormick, 61, chairman of the finance committee of International Harvester Co., sometime husband of the late Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick and of Operasinger Ganna Walska; by Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

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