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During her 15-year-long parliamentary career, peppery Laborite Edith Summer-skill, doughty feminist and onetime Minister of National Insurance, has outraged many a British male by views that ranged from ringing denunciations of bacon & eggs for breakfast to a demand for a law requiring all men to tell their wives how much money they earn. Four years ago, when every British man worthy of his gender stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly...
After Britain's New Statesman and Nation waggishly caricatured her in drawing and word ("Queen Edith [whose] mask is elaborate . . . eye-sockets . . . thumbed by a master") and accused her of "riding the elephant of publicity in Hollywood," cadaverous Poetess Edith (Faqade) Sitwell, like a glacier overriding a grounded gnat, coolly crushed the New Statesman's slurs. Her letter to the editor: "I cannot see that . . . my appearance and personality are the affair of any but my personal acquaintances . . . They are not, as [your correspondent] suggests, an 'achievement' but are . . . inherited. I am not descended from...
Solo for Ear-Trumpet, by Edith Sitwell...
...Wonderful Town," universally acclaimed as wonderful, has wonderful Rosalind Russell singing Leonard Bernstein's bumpy, original melodies. Edith Adams makes an attractive, on-time sidekick as Eileen...
...affectionate tomboy, she was educated at home by her strict mother and an English governess. Frederika was 17 before she was sent off to school, first in England, then in Florence. The Italian school was typical of many which catered especially to wealthy American girls. Its proprietor. Miss Edith May, was hesitant when the Duke of Brunswick sought to enter his daughter. Her school, she said, was not for princesses: it was a democratic institution where all girls would be treated alike, make their own beds and call each other by their first names...