Word: edna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THEY BROUGHT THEIR WOMEN-Edna Ferber-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Expert machinist of popular-priced fiction, Edna Ferber has long turned out best-selling goods in three different models: novels, short stories and, with collaborators, plays. Like all carefully machined products for mass consumption, Edna Ferber's stories are as competently finished, as conservatively up-to-date, as shiny with neat paintwork and chromium fittings, as unindividual as next year's family model, f. o. b. Detroit...
...Hearst Press reported that one Edna Brown, 19, a British hotel waitress, swam the Thames River to the grounds of Windsor Castle, emerged "radiant" in her "youthful attractiveness" as King George V came up on horseback with two grooms. Miss Brown, "dumbfounded, curtsied"; the King bowed, asked, "Where is your boat?" He watched while she swam back. Next day the Crown Land Office wrote the hotel across the river a sharp letter. Miss Brown was reprimanded, resigned her job, then was rehired at King George's request. Headlined Hearstpapers: GIRL IN ONE-PIECE SUIT CURTSIES TO KING...
Before Morning (by Edna & Edward P. Riley; Albert Bannister & John G. Norman, producers) is a mystery play which, although it refrains from bringing the murderer on the stage until Act III, does mystify. It has to do with an unemployed but practical actress who, to support herself and invalid child, is about to marry a rich gentleman from Detroit. At the news of this betrothal, an elderly banker, one of the actress's sweethearts, faints dead away. Rallying round, still other of her gentlemen friends prepare to remove the banker to a more discreet resting place, a somewhat shady...
...sister Anne, the late Elizabeth Marbury and Amelia Earhart Putnam were among them. Her big offices on Fifth Avenue were always busy. Just before the stockmarket crash, as a member of the Committee on the Financial Education of Women she headed a thrift exposition in Manhattan. Last week Edna V. O'Brien was arrested for grand larceny...
...While Edna Newton listened sulkily and Louis Rebuzzini sullenly, Dr. Wiener discoursed about blood types O. A. B & AB and certain substances called agglutinogens M & N, reasoned that if this-blood man fertilized that-blood woman, their offspring must have this-or-that blood and could not have such-or-such blood. All this meant that the Landsteiner blood groups can show only that a man is not a child's father. But not in every case can blood matching prove innocence. For example, two putative fathers may belong to the same blood group. Nonetheless, the blood groups suffice...