Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cited by Laborite Ponsonby as an instance of "unofficial propaganda" is the deed of Miss Kate Hume of Dumfries, Scotland. In 1914 she forged and gave to the British press a purported letter from her sister, Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...
Soon smart Washington will miss the deceptively nervous gentleman who wins so often but so charmingly and wittily at bridge, too. Diplomatic Washington will remember the master negotiant who won so much for China at President Harding's Nine Power conference.* for the cablegram told Dr. Sze to cross the Atlantic and resume the post of Chinese Minister at London, which he held throughout the War. Of the six Sze offspring (4 girls), half are being educated on each side of the Atlantic. Thus, although Dr. and Mrs. Sze will leave Maimie at Wellesley, where she was coxswain and captain...
Scarcely any one in England would think of calling Mrs. Stanley Baldwin "Lucy,"' except of course her husband, the Prime Minister. Even the smart friends of Miss Betty Baldwin, including some of London's most notorious titled set, would never refer to a "church" in her mother's presence as a "Godbox."* Therefore it was quite "in character" for Mrs. Baldwin to go, last week, to a quite old-fashioned little church bazaar...
Synthetic Sin. Colleen Moore is a competent comédienne and the idea of this picture (a small town beauty who, told that she will never be a great actress until she suffers, goes to the city to sin) has possibilities, but somehow or other neither Miss Moore's talent nor the plot is used to much advantage. There are times when both the story and the actress wink and twitch like someone about to do something really funny, but the moment always slips away, the wit is not managed, and what is left remains small-town fooling. Best...
Best shot: Miss Banky trimming her grandfather's beard...