Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course famed and lovable H. G. Wells has not written any "Book on Loneliness." The jest went deeper than that. Its sly allusion-perfectly understood by almost every Briton, except innocent old ladies-was to a new and sensationally suppressed novel, The Well of Loneliness, by Miss Radclyffe Hall...
...Miss Hall has depicted sympathetically the mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...
Last week Miss Hall's publishers-the old and distinguished firm of Jonathan Cape, Ltd.-appealed against suppression of The Well of Loneliness, before the Attorney General of Great Britain, Sir Thomas Inskip. National interest focused on the appeal because Miss Hall's book had received the indorsement of a petition to the Attorney General signed by John Drinkwater, Hugh Walpole, John Middleton Murray, Lytton Strachey, Arnold Bennett...
...first quarter was marked by fumbles and miss-plays on the part of both teams. The Crimson quickly fell into its stride beginning with the second quarter, and continued on the offensive throughout the remainder of the contest...
...were, you were greatly pleased by the acting in the Molnar play. "Caprice" will show you that relative to Guild standards of acting that performance was but mediocre. The acting redeems whatever complaints one may have against the play as such. Mr. Lunt as the attorney is admirable, and Miss Fontanne the usual delight. The work of Mr. Montgomery as the dreamy son, and of Lily Cahill as his mother is equally good...