Word: missed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Back in Your Own Back Yard." The rest of the numbers will need a lot of plugging to make you remember them. Best shot: Marion Nixon telling Jolson what the manager proposed to her. Silliest shot: a doctor refusing to operate on Little Pal unless Miss Nixon raises $5,000. Silliest song-line (to the convicts): "Violets from their seeds push their way up through the weeds...
...escaped unscathed. Some three weeks ago, off the coast of Norway occurred Prince Ibrahim's latest, grandest bust-up. Five minutes after His Highness's famed quarter-million-dollar Diesel yacht Nazpermer ("Beautiful Lady") struck a rock, it sank (TIME, July 29). How it all happened, a Miss Margaret Woolf of Rochester, N. Y., cheerfully told Paris reporters last week. Excerpts...
...Editor of Brazil's O Estado de Sao Paulo sat reading a copy of TIME. He thought back to the hectic week when millions of Brazilians were positive that delectable "Miss Brazil" would be crowned "Miss Universe" at Galveston, Tex. He remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio...
...Whether Brazilian editors knew it or not. Miss Brazil was but one of many Manhattan arrivals from far lands for the Galveston contest. Her presence, like theirs, received nothing more than routine mention, even in the tabloid press...
Meanwhile an airplane zoomed away from Manhattan bearing the Show Girl script for Miss Stone to learn while crossing the country. It arrived in Los Angeles just three hours after her train had departed eastward. There upon Will Rogers took to an airplane, pursued the train to an outlying station, dropped the script to Miss Stone who caught it on the fly. In her drawing room, as the train moved on, she began memorizing lines, practicing tap steps, after eating cautiously, with an eye to health...