Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I take exception to a few words in your notice of Ethel Barrymore and her Kingdom of God: "the hushed, sad peacefulness of cloistered life." I don't know whether your writer or Miss B. is responsible for that sadness, but there isn't any such atmosphere in convents or monasteries. I ought to know, for I've been in and out of both for a good many years. Life in a convent isn't so wild and hilarious, of course, as in a night club, which must be about the saddest spot on earth...
...fulfillment came, last week, to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. The boy from Potsdam, N. Y., and the St. Paul lawyer of national prestige- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said that last week Frank Billings Kellogg rode the crest. Therefore, this...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra directed by Serge Kounsevitsky will give a concert in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Arthur Honegger will be the guest conductor, assisted by Madame Andree Vaurabourg Honegger, pianist, and Miss Cobina Wright...
...program originally announced, Mr. Honegger has added three songs from his "La Petite Sirene" which will be sung by Miss Wright. Another change in the program is the rendering by Miss Wright of "The Prayer" from Mr. Honegger's opera "Judith" instead of "The Nocturne" as formerly announced...
...original copy of one of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son as well as several miniature books written by Charlotte Bronte during her childhood are included by one case which further shows the variety and worth of this unusual collection of Miss Lowell...