Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Smith boasts petite, rather than the usual robust, features, saying she is 5 feet 4 inches tall and only 112 pounds. Atop her sleek frame rests a golden blond head. Miss Coleman, who is a Sophomore at St. Mary's, failed to list measurements...
...with Elmer Andrews went his playwriting Deputy Administrator Paul Sifton and an executive assistant, George McEwen. Summarily fired by Madam Perkins, without the usual two-week notice, was Elmer Andrews' secretary and right-hand woman, handsome Eugenia Pope. Efficient, 33-year-old Miss Pope did much to make life bearable for her boss, fending off importunate callers and imposing order in an office not always noted for order. Miss Pope quickly got offers from other Federal bureaus and private business. Luckless Mr. Andrews, who gave up a $12,000-a-year job with New York State to take...
...large projects and noble ideals man is supreme. Nothing could prove more strikingly than knitting woman's devotion to the small things. . . . To see a knitter adding a few stitches between stops in a train or omnibus, purling two or casting off between glimpses of Mr. Cooper and Miss Colbert on the screen-this is an object lesson in concentration and in kindly devotion...
...Blitzkrieg. Now & then, as on Christmas Eve, his gushing soul drips treacle; but the real Whiteside, from his wheelchair throne, commandeers the house, forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to smash his secretary's love affair, bewitches the servants, bedevils his nurse. Snaps he to "Miss Bedpan": "My great-aunt Jennifer . . . lived to be 102 and when she was three days dead she looked better than you do now." But the last word is hers: "If Florence Nightingale had nursed you, she would have married Jack the Ripper instead of founding the Red Cross...
...MISS SUSIE SLAGLE'S - Augusta Tucker - Harper ($2.50). A first novel of life among medical students at Johns Hopkins, 1912-1916, written with honest knowledge of the place and a brand of sentiment exactly suggestive of the time. Typical of Author Tucker's reverent gusto: a scene in which a young student at an autopsy is struck by the glowing beauty of lungs and intestines...