Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alden Weir, a fine collection of porcelains and 16th Century jewelry-for the Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery. He used to keep his collection,in a private gallery in Manhattan's arty Heckscher Building, did not invite the public. His money came from his first wife, Edith Rogers, who left him the site of the old Holland House. He testified that his art had been almost his all, he now possessed only an annuity of $3,750. He would not, could not, keep the second Mrs. Gellatly. The Horrible Hemingways...
...first round, her opponent was able Edith Sigourney of Boston. Mrs. Moody...
...sister was born little Willie was tethered to a tree along with a calf, and there was a pail of milk close at hand, for which they both struggled, and into which he tumbled and was nearly drowned." Thus Mrs. Edith Gittings Reid, wife of Harry Fielding Reid, Johns Hopkins professor of dynamic geology & geography, begins The Great Physician: A Life of Sir William Osler, published last fortnight.- Her book is briefer (293 pp.) than Harvey Williams Cushing's two-volume year-by-year life (1,413 pp.). Yet she gives a full picture of "the greatest physician...
...retirement he has made a comfortable fortune. He helped Frank and Anna Gould win the interfamily Gould estate suit in 1927. In 1919 he got Frank a divorce from Edith Kelley, British chorus girl...
...Charles's head of psychoanalysis and experiment in genre does not keep continually turning up in her books as they do [sic] in those rather Mr. Dick-like compositions of Mr. Sherwood Anderson for instance." Unlike Sinclair Lewis, she does not bite her country's hand; unlike Edith Wharton (whose example influenced her early work) she casts no nostalgic backward glances toward Europe; unlike Ernest Hemingway, she carries no gnawing fox in her devoted bosom. Her simple, colloquial language obeys the canon of good prose (she rereads Pilgrim's Progress annually), and in that is unremarkable...