Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half pints in the pub. She employed Ridgley, dubbed "Tinker" by his cronies, as her gardener, started village tongues to wagging when she drove about the countryside with him last summer. Drummer in the village band, Tinker gained further favor because he was Speen's ace darts player. "Miss Ishbel" has her own team of dart throwers which she pits against teams from neighboring pubs. Tinker is her captain. "I think darts a very clean and fine sport. I wish to encourage the game," she once explained...
...served from 4:30 to 5:30 o'clock, poured by the patronesses. They were Miss Mildred F. Sherman, Mrs. Olive H. Smith, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, and Mrs. Henry Chauncey, P.B.H. officials labeled the occasion a success...
...Miss Eleanor N. Devine, of Brockton, waitress in Lowell House, died as a result of the accident, while the other occupant of the car, Miss Ann Bailow, of Brighton, also a Lowell House waitress, suffered head injuries...
Rare volumes and letters from the pen of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library. A feature of the display is a manuscript draft of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Aurora Leigh," bequeathed to Harvard by Miss Amy Lowell. A letter in which Mrs. Browning referred in 1841 to her famous dog, Flush, is also shown. She wrote that the dog had torn a book into fragments, "like a critic," and added, "But how could he know any better? There's an apology for the critics...
Assuring an audience of 100 persons in the Lowell House Common Room last night that the peaceful nations of the world would be gobbled up if they did not take concerted action against Fascist elements, Miss Celeste Strack took the affirmative of a debate entitled "Collective Security...