Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five children. The Connecticut judge who ruled the children should stay with their father, Crooner Morton Downey, recalled that the mother had remarried a few days after the divorce, found she had "permitted volatile infatuation to be substituted for mother love." Cinecomic Red Skelton's wife Edna announced she was moving out as his wife but would continue as his manager and gagwriter, said: "It had to be one or the other...
Hindside Foremost. Later young Ilka was transferred to a secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...
SARATOGA TRUNK - Edna Ferber-. Doubleday, Doran...
These new novels by Edna Ferber (who writes-just-like-a-man) and Louis Bromfield (who writes almost like one) have three things in common: both use New Orleans, both will sell well, and both are so predigested for celluloid that they hardly sit still on the page. But one of them is pretty good, and the other pretty...
...Edna Ferber is more adroit. Her Creole heroine, Clio Dulaine, is not only beautiful, but hard, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara and other cut-rate Becky Sharps. Clio takes up with Gambler Clint Maroon: "He was magnificent, he was vast, he was beautiful, he was crude, he was rough, he was untamed, he was Texas." He was also a gambler, but Clio soon seduced him into larger ambitions...