Word: missed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Newport News, Va. It was a boiling hot day under a blazing hot sun, but Texans thrive in such weather. There were two good Texans looking the part, Senators Morris Sheppard and Tom Connally. Through the crowd came tripping a little Southern maid, all flowers, Miss Elizabeth Holcombe (daughter of a former Mayor of Houston) followed by a maid of honor. She struck the steady prow of the monster gingerly with a flask of bottled water. She struck again. No damage was done. Up stepped manly Homer Lenoir Ferguson, President of Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. (see col. 1), took...
Married. A. Evan Gwynne of Manhattan, nephew, of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt; and Miss Barbara Talbot-Peterson, Pittsburgh socialite; in Manhattan...
John Coolidge, railroad clerk who this summer started work for the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. at $30.16 per week, signed a lease on a $78 apartment (4 rooms) in New Haven, Conn., for himself and wife-to-be, Miss Florence Trumbull. Miss Trumbull approved modern conveniences already installed, ordered washtubs. Wrote Citizen Calvin Coolidge last month: No newly married couple should pay more rent per month than the husband earns per week...
Most important of the contests was the race for the Harmsworth (British International) trophy, held since 1920 by wiry, grey-haired Garfield ("Gar") Wood, "The Silver Fox." Piloting his new Miss America VIII he won the first heat, established a non-straightaway record...
Close behind, averaging only .001 m. p. h. less, was brother George Wood in Miss America VII, last year's winning boat. Both other contestants were eliminated by engine trouble. In the second (and final) heat Champion Wood sent Miss America VIII roaring at the new record time of over 75 m. p. h., strengthened the tradition that he is unbeatable on water...