Word: missed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shopgirls as the greatest living exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female sex appeal, and Miss Claire to Scenario Writer Gene Markey. She had known Gilbert for only a fortnight. They were married in Las Vegas, Nev., before a little group of cowboys, storekeepers and cinema friends. Those members of the cinema public not familiar with Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood...
Chronicles of more regent date make it clear, that Miss. Claire's personal glances into the pages of history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need...
Married. Edward Lee Cannon of Washington, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; to Miss Elizabeth Roberts of New Bern, N. C.; at New Bern...
...Married. Miss Gertrude Ellen du Puy Sanford of Manhattan, sister of Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford (international poloist and turfman), to Sidney Jennings Legendre of New Orleans, La., Princeton athlete (1925) and adventurer (she went with him last year to the Mountains of the Moon, Abyssinia, on a museum trip); in Manhattan...
...Engaged. Miss Louise Iselin of Manhattan, daughter of Ernest Iselin, banker (A. Iselin & Co.); to Count Leonardo Mercati of Paris, stepson of Baron Emerich von Pflugl, Austrian representative at the League of Nations...