Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Bankhead was not in any way connected with the story, nor was she mentioned at all in the United States by A. P., Universal or United Press; she is not red-headed but blonde; she is not the daughter but granddaughter of the late U. S. Senator Bankhead (Ala. D.). Whether she "was robbed for a moment of her gay and civilized exuberance" is problematical but doubtful...
...Hughes-Telegram column is still experimental. It is extremely diffident in its advice to shoppers, but then no daily automobile editor has ever dared to say anything but equally nice things about each and every automobile that was ever offered for sale. Miss Hughes' advice to storekeepers is much more specific. To date, however, her best work has been to acquaint the buying millions with quaint details. Some of her paragraphs...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., one Nettie Friedman found a seat on a subway train, one afternoon last week. It was hot (84° F.) and fetid. People yawned and wagged their heads drowsily. Miss Friedman yawned. Nobody noticed anything wrong about her. At the end of ten minutes, she was still engaged in the same yawn, with her tongue hanging out a little farther. The lower part of her face and jaw were paralyzed. Several subway folk tried to help her, failed, then carried her off the train and called an ambulance. At the Jewish Hospital, a doctor massaged her face...
...Miss Calkins reflects a keen curiosity in human reactions. "Queens weep like simple women"-but why, what have queens to weep?. Yet she knows
Clarence Hungerford Mackay, telegraph-cable tycoon, was ordered by the Supreme Court of New York to pay $1,000 to his onetime secretary, Miss Catherine McCabe. She had fallen down stairs in Mr. Mackay's office building at 20 Broad Street, Manhattan, in 1923, sprained her ankle. The stairway was dark at the time; hence, the damages...