Word: miss
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Academy (London) says of Miss Cushman's retirement from the stage; "She played 'Lady Macbeth' before an audience which hung on her performance with the utmost enthusiasm. Afterwards, Mr. Cullen Bryant gave her a laurel-wreath, and some leading citizens of New York bore torches in front of her as she went home to her hotel...
...Miss Susan B. A. Smith, stroke of the Vassar crew, fainted dead away; the Wesleyan crew ceased rowing, and initiated an impromptu prayer-meeting; while Ephraim G. Stubbs, livid with fright, set his crew a tremendous stroke, in order to put a safe distance between his woolly head and the tomahawk of the red-skin...
Resolved, That as his classmates we feel deeply the loss of one so distinguished for nobleness of character, for faithfulness to duty, and for many talents which were ever an honor to his class: as his companions we shall ever miss so genial and true a friend...
ALTHOUGH several notices have been given of Professor Bocher's course of University Lectures for this year, we wish to repeat the substance of these notices here, that no one may miss such an excellent opportunity of studying French Comedy, through any misunderstanding. The lectures will be free to all students of the University who have sufficient knowledge of French to obtain practical benefit from attending them. Any member of the public at large, whether man or woman, can obtain a ticket to the lectures for the small sum of fifteen dollars. The lectures will be given on every Saturday...
...something else. The captain comes down from the bridge. Wishing to display my knowledge of English railroads, I ask him if we shall reach Liverpool in time to catch the three o'clock train for London.* He looks at his watch critically, and replies, "I am afraid we shall miss it by just twelve minutes." He smiles for some reason or other, and I see him afterwards whispering to the man who ordered the quart of port. Suddenly a bell rings, and somebody says, "Dinner." I rush down stairs and get a seat at the table before any one else...