Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dozed through a torpid week during which Miss Megan Lloyd George?large daughter of small David?was selected by the Liberal party machine to stand for election to Parliament in the constituency of Anglesey, called "The Mother of Wales...
...Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman...
...solitary U. S. aristocrat of the blatant sisterhood? Last week at the Third Court of the present London Season there were presented to Their Majesties, at Buckingham Palace, eight U. S. citizenesses: Mrs. Alton Brooks Parker, widow of the Democratic candidate for President of the U. S. in 1904. Miss Ruth Draper of Manhattan. Miss Lois Davidson, Houston, Tex.; Miss Neville T. Gherardi, Chevy Chase, Md.; Miss Francis Howard, Atlanta, Ga.; Miss Helen Mary Hurley, Chicago; Miss Clementine Miller, Columbus, Ind.; and Mrs. Charles Deere Wiman, Moline, Ill. Among practicing British actresses indignation was intense, last week, at the presentation...
There were several Americans left now and one more Frenchwoman-Mlle. Manette Le Blan. Miss Collett got to the fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked...
...There was rain again and the cold sea wind harried the dunes. The big gallery scared both women, but Mlle. Le Blan least. Mlle. Le Blan has a flashing eye, a hook nose, a big mouth, and a strong, graceful body. She wore stockings, leather coat, woolen gloves, like Miss Wragg. Since she felt comfortable her drives were long and hard, her putts accurate. She beat Miss Marshall at the 34th hole. "I am glad" said she "to have saved the championship for France...