Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glenna Collett, women's national golf champion: The North & South championship at Pinehurst, winning 1 up in the finals from Edith Quier, handsome golfer of Reading, Pa., after Miss Quier had unexpectedly put out Virginia Van Wie and Helen Hicks...
ALEXANDER POPE?Edith Sitwell?Cosmopolitan...
...born in Germantown, Pa., son of a rector, descendant of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812. He attended Germantown Academy, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Episcopal Theological School (Cambridge, Mass.). He occupied several parishes in Massachusetts and Connecticut, married (1908) Edith Dean Weir, violin-playing and painting daughter of onetime Dean John Ferguson Weir of the School of Fine Arts, Yale University. He is president of the trustees of St. George's School, Newport, R. I. At his summer home in Princeton, Mass, he plays tennis, tends a garden, fells...
...this juncture up rose Miss Edith Picton-Turbervill, Labor M. P., accomplished swimmer, author of Christ and Woman's Power. She not only approved heartily of white-haired Mr. Lansbury's ladies' bath, said she, but she would take a bath there and then and report on it to the House of Commons. While Tories and Laborites cheered gallantly she left the Chamber, delivered herself to the bath-mistress. Half an hour later, rosy and refreshed, she returned, announced that the ladies' bath was a credit to the House of Commons...
...Author. Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he is tall, pale, has thin lips, restless hands; unassailable socially, he delights in flouting convention. The English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other...