Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moonlight. Before her daughter was born, Sarah Moonlight (Edith Barrett) made a wish on a necklace owned by her Scotch nurse: that she would never look any older. Sarah was then 23. The tragedy of her perpetual youth dawned upon her when she was 28, her husband (Sir Guy Standing) 44. At that point she ran away from home, letting it be understood that she had taken her life. In Act II-17 years later-she still looks 23, younger than her daughter to whom she returns incognito and from whom she steals the affections of a worthless young...
...flourishing in San Francisco, New York, too, had a mining exchange. In 1879 it averaged some 55,000 shares a day (against the new market's 8,000 on opening day). Some old New Yorkers can still recall the high hopes they had when they bought Bertha & Edith at 8?, the higher hopes when six months later it was 39?, the chagrin when it was stricken from the list as valueless...
...only upset of the early rounds was the beating which a 20-year-old Sacramento girl named Dorothy Weisel gave famed and able young Sarah Palfrey of Boston, 6-2, 6-8, 6-4. That day Betty Xuthall put out Edith Cross, 6-0, 6-3. Her shots were beautifully angled and she never compromised with them. The strength of her game is that she plays for put-aways even when she is making errors, disdaining caution. She had no trouble putting Miss Weisel out. Mrs. Lawrence Harper of California, No. 5 ranking U. S. woman, put out Mary Greef...
Editor Ray Long published in Cosmopolitan the letters of Miss Edith Benham, social secretary to President Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, written to her fiance Rear Admiral James M. Helm. Social Secretary Benham reported almost daily to her Admiral the progress of the Paris Peace Conference as she observed it from the Wilson's Paris headquarters, the ornate Bischoffsheim house at 11 Place des Etats Unis...
...Martin, British Consul at Foochow, sailed up the Min River last week with $50,000 in a satchel and a sharp note for one Lu Sing-pan, bandit chief. Earlier in the week the Misses Edith Nettleton and Eleanor Harrison, members of the British Church Missionary Society, were fleeing from the district of Changsha, which was captured and looted fortnight ago by bandit-Communist troops (TIME...