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Word: miss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Mary Endicott, a daughter of U. S. Secretary of War in the first administration of President Cleveland, by becoming the third wife of Old Joe (twice a widower) helped him reach this final conclusion of his maturity: although Anglo-German accord is indispensable to European peace, the edifice requires to be supported by a flying buttress 3,000 miles long in the form of an alliance or entente of the U. S. with Britain and Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Price Peace? | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Sisters depends largely on how well it evokes the mood of an era which lies within memory's horizon for many people who will see it. In this respect, Milton Krims's screen play, Anatole Litvak's direction and the acting of Flynn and Miss Davis are eminently successful. A trifle pretentious in its narrative manner, The Sisters has the salient virtue of making it clear that in 1908 that sleepy year seemed just as fateful as 1938 does now, and for somewhat similar reasons. Good shot: The Medlins' San Francisco neighbor squealing the earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...Radcliffe College 38 years ago, went famed blind and deaf Helen Keller. Sitting next to her, Companion Mary Agnes ("Polly'') Thomson clasped her hand, signaled the action and color of the game, ''telegraphed" the gains & losses play by play. As Minnesota won, 7-0, Miss Keller jumped to her feet again & again, cheered wildly. Said she: "I surely am pulling for Minnesota today. . . . Those beautiful kicks are really the poetry of motion. . . . They were beautifully matched teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Married. Martha Raye (real name: Marjorie Yvonne Reed), 22, trumpetvoiced cinema comedienne; and David Rose, 29-year-old composer; in Mexico. Miss Raye's divorce from Hollywood Make-up Artist Hamilton ("Buddy") Westmore became final last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...hill folks, its characters were strange, unreal philosophers who explained at great length, in highly polished sentences, that they did not know what it was all about. It thus became that most embarrassing of literary performances- an extremely bad book by a distinguished writer-and critics, murmuring politely about Miss Roberts' style, looked the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kentucky Home-Coming | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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