Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like Miss Thompson, had quaked with fear lest Nazi Germany had swallowed Austria, were last week highly delighted to hear Austria in the person of Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg talking back to Adolf Hitler. Through a cheering crowd of 40,000 Viennese, Schuschnigg drove to the Austrian Diet to deliver a speech which made him the hero of Central Europe...
...score (521.6 points) went to long-legged, 16-year-old Joan Tozzer, last year's junior champion, daughter of Harvard's famed Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer. But close on her white-shod heels (517.5 points) was vivacious, Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy) of Manhattan. So eager is Miss Peppe to follow the figure-eights of her aunt, Beatrix Loughran, who held the title in 1925-26-27, that she went abroad last summer to study under Sonja Henie's skating instructor. Behind Miss Peppe came one representative from each of the three oldest U. S. figure-skating...
...Peppe's forte. To the tune of the Hungarian Rhapsody, she delighted the crowd with flaring spins, jumps, dance steps. But Joan Tozzer so impressed the solemn judges with the simplicity and smoothness of her free-skating repertory that they gave her performance almost as many points as Miss Peppe's. When the two-day totals were tallied, Joan Tozzer was awarded the crown by the slim margin of one-tenth of a point...
...Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...
...Hurricane," which opened at the University yesterday for a stay one day longer than the usual run, is a picture that no one can afford to miss. It is a masterpiece of photography and direction. By the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty," it deals with the South Sea Islands of bygone years when only Nature and the Catholic Church dared to interfere with the French Penal Code. The hero (Jon Hall) is cast as a native symbolic of all the natives, incredibly strong and brave, free as a bird and incapable of understanding restraint. His arrest, for striking...