Word: missed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell, plump, blonde Manhattan socialite, accompanied by tall, brunette Mrs. Mabel Satterlee Ingalls, niece of John Pierpont Morgan, managed to enter Soviet Russia last month without a visa. Last week she got out of Bolshevikland without even a passport, sold to Hearst papers the romping diary of her exploits, then spilled her story all over again to every correspondent who would listen. Young men-about-Manhattan sighed. They know "Molly" Cogswell. Acutely they sympathized with Bolshevik males who were unable to withstand her high, burbling, husky wheedle...
...Miss Cogswell and her "Mabel" (Mrs. Ingalls) were in Berlin when a party of 99 U. S. notables passed through en route to Moscow on a tour arranged by the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. Next day Socialite Cogswell and Morgan-Niece Ingalls decided that they wanted to tour Russia too, hopped onto a sleeping car to catch up and join the U. S. party...
...weeks of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce tour was as much as adventurous Miss Cogswell and loyal Mrs. Ingalls could stand. Having startled fellow passengers and many a Volga boatman by appearing on the hot deck of a river steamer in lounging pajamas, they left the party at Tiflis in the Caucasus, announced their intention of climbing Mount Ararat "to look for traces of Noah...
Passport or no passport, dismayed Soviet officials would not risk keeping Miss Mary van Renssalaer Cogswell in Russia. They bundled her out, permitted Morgan- Niece Ingalls to stay...
Uncle Sham. Dr. Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba...