Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even his best friends disagreed about the Town Crier's real nature. Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more kindness than anyone I have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...
Supporting Evidence. In Manhattan. Edna Dessau, shot and severely wounded last year by one Dr. Samuel Weinrib, told Judge Jonah Goldstein that she did not care about prosecuting the doctor; she merely wanted the return of her prewar girdle, through which the bullet passed. Judge Goldstein refused on the ground that the girdle was state's evidence...
...They Like It. In Harrisburg, Pa., Corporal Martin Blackwood and Edna May Weaver, who met on roller skates, were married that...
...While I was talking to a group of soldiers, he came up and introduced himself and said, 'I married a girl from your home town ... I married Edna Kuhns...
...What had you planned to ask for [the plow], Miss Edna...