Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour of the four months while he was engaged in the flood...
Candid friends of Seer David, 26, rejoiced last week that he will espouse wholesome, Crack-Fishermaiden Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, 21, who announced that she will wed "sometime next year...
...usual every Autumn, members of the Bowes-Lyon family were fishing for sporty salmon, last week, in the famed River Spey. Among titled Spey fisher-women the Duchess of York ranks well; but she is admittedly surpassed by Super-Fishermaiden Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, a niece of Viscount & Viscountess Astor. During the week Miss Spender-Clay distinguished herself still further by announcing her engagement to the Duchess' youngest brother, the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon, probably the worst salmon fisherman in his distinguished family...
Romans have thrilled to all manner of races-chariot races, horse races, automobile races, airplane races. But last week Romans saw their first whippet (dog) races. Six of the fleetest whippets raced were owned by the Contessa Dentice Di Frasso, once Miss Dorothy Taylor of Manhattan. Present were the U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Henry Prather Fletcher...
...exactly the atmosphere on the screen that F. Scott Fitzgerald's books have when you read them and that they do not have when filmed. Joan Crawford, a nice girl who acts wild, and Anita Page, a nastv but quiet girl, are after Rich John Mack Brown. Miss Crawford, competent actress, drinks out of the cocktail glasses of three young men and later in the evening kisses three young men in turn, in public, and Rich Boy Brown marries mercenary Miss Page. Young love is thwarted. But one night after a party at the yacht club Miss Page...