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...Rushville, Ind., Edith Willkie, "distressed" by the political argument about her husband, asked that all speculation cease. Said Governor Baldwin: "I sympathize with her feelings and agree...
Grey, stooped Miss Edith Brooking inspected her wrecked cottage in Shillington. Said she: "We are thankful that our sacrifice has been worth while. We are proud that it was on our beaches that the Americans practiced the landings they made so gallantly on the beaches of Normandy...
...Lewisham, Mrs. Edith Robinson, 32, had quadruplets, and the news caused scarcely a ripple. Normally the chances are 600,000-to-1. But this was the fifth set born in Britain in a year, the third set born to wives of servicemen, the second set to wives of R.A.F...
Psittacosis and Circus Clowns. Periodically, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell visited their fabulously wealthy grandparents, the Earl and Countess of Londes-borough. When the Earl went bathing, a mile of red carpet was laid down from his Scarborough villa to the sea. When he inherited his estate, he promptly gave all his chief servants checkbooks "so that they could draw on his funds . . . without worrying him." An excessive fondness for parrots caused the Earl's death (in 1900, from psittacosis). His hawk-faced wife, who once caused Napoleon III to burn with a hard gemlike flame, ran Londes-borough Lodge...
...others: Edith (Collected Poems, The English Eccentrics, Victoria of England); Sacheverell (Life of Liszt, Old Fashioned Flowers...