Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigate. The marshals went to the Riley home on Rhode Island Avenue, descended to the basement. They opened the door of a windowless closet and there found something that whimpered and blinked and ate food scraps from a pan. It was the Riley's 12-year-old child. Edith, scarred and filthy. Her case, broached to horrified Washington. D. C. two months ago, was settled insofar as the law could settle it last week...
...Edith Kane Baker, wife of Manhattan Banker George Fisher Baker Jr. (First National Bank), was asked for $500,000 damages by her cousin Mrs. Mary Emma Calhoun, Manhattan real estate broker. Mrs. Baker was accused of describing her cousin to others as "a narcotic addict" who "bribed doctors and nurses to give her narcotics, and was a liar and not to be trusted...
...train killed one of his dogs. He knew of the accident, and instead of burying his pet, left that job to the section-crew. But somebody took the lifeless body, strung it up and built the fire as described to me by the policeman who discovered it. ... MRS. EDITH JUDKINS KNAUL...
...Lady with a Lamp is reputedly based on the brief Nightingale biography in cadaverous Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. Between the play and the Strachey piece, however, there are noticeable differences in characterization and fact. To Playwright Berkeley, Nurse Nightingale, reverently and somewhat palely acted by Edith Evans, is a sort of Maid of Orleans. He acknowledges "securing aid and authorization of Miss Nightingale's relatives." To Mr. Strachey, however, Florence Nightingale was more like the kind of person Carrie Nation might have turned out to be had she been interested in caring for the sick instead...
Married. Mary Sybil Lewis, Arkansas-born Metropolitan opera singer and cinema star; and Robert L. Hague, vice president of Standard Shipping Co., onetime Shepherd of the Lambs Club; secretly; in Manhattan. The bride was once married to Basso Michael Franz Bohnen of the Metropolitan, the groom to Mme Edith Bobe, dressmaker...