Word: edwardina
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...staging of Sitwell's previously unstageable poetry set to the sparkling music and witty and irreverent dance parodies of the young William Walton. The action, wild enough at its first performance in 1923 to have the fire department be called in, takes place, more or less, in a crumbling Edwardina hotel by the sea. Performances continue tonight and run through Saturday at the Loeb Mainstage. Tickets are $3 and $4 and can be bought at the Loeb box office...
...Orphans' Court a case which was such a case that 550 Philadelphia lawyers were needed, and in addition, 2,500 from outside the prosperous pale of Philadelphia's bar. Proceedings in Case No. 2552 of 1932 are to determine the heirs, if any, of Henrietta Edwardina Garrett, deceased. Claiming her estate of more than $20,000,000 are some 17,000 persons from every State in the U. S. and 29 foreign countries, each of whom has been assured of a "day in court...
Snuff. Fabulous is the story of Henrietta Edwardina Garrett's $20,000,000 fortune. It came from snuff. On board William Penn's plague-ridden ship Welcome when it arrived in the U. S. in 1682 was a Garrett. He prospered in new Philadelphia with a small snuff shop on Front Street. His descendants prospered, also in snuff. One of these was Walter Garrett, born in 1831. He married Henrietta Edwardina Schaeffer, a girl of humble origin, in 1872 after a romance which began on a front porch which she was scrubbing...
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