Word: ida
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pains in her stomach, but after Mrs. Robinson had brought her a glass of water she said: "Now you go back to bed." Fifteen minutes later, in the dark loneliness of the rambling house where she had lived so long and brought up her five sons, 84-year-old Ida Stover Eisenhower died of a heart attack...
...come a long way to the old house. Left an orphan at five, she went to live on a Virginia farm with her German grandparents. She left them at 15. Her grandparents did not believe in education for women; Ida Stover did. She got a job as a cook and when she was 21 followed her seven brothers west. Her brothers went their various ways. Ida Stover went to Lane University, a small school at Lecompton, Kans...
Died. Ray Stannard Baker, 76, author, essayist and journalist, friend and official biographer of Woodrow Wilson and one of the last of the "muckrakers" (others: Lincoln Steffens, Ida M. Tarbell), who flourished on the late great McClure's magazine at the turn of the century; in Amherst, Mass. Under the pen name of David Grayson, Baker wrote nine popular volumes of philosophical essays about nature and people (Adventures in Contentment, The Countryman's Year); under his own name 27 volumes about political, social and economic problems and biography. His greatest and Pulitzer Prize work: Woodrow Wilson-Life...
...George Reresby Sitwell of Renishaw was an extraordinary man. He spent money like water, dabbled in medieval lore, invented a musical toothbrush that played Annie Laurie. In a milder way, his wife, Lady Ida, was extraordinary too. Though she invented nothing, she also spent money like water (she once paid a large price for a pig said to be psychic), as befitted a daughter of the Earl of Londesborough and a descendant of the royal Plantagenets...
...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...