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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dismissed in West Virginia for shooting into an automobile. Before that there was an outcry from Canadians who complained that U. S. rum guards had fired across the boundary line at Detroit. Near Fresno, Calif., one Frank Aiello was lately shot dead for not stopping. In Yazoo County, Miss., Federal bullets whacked into a back seat occupied by a woman and her two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shooting Folks At Night | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Miss Elizabeth Houghton, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain Alanson Bigelow Houghton; and her friend Miss Genevieve Sullivan, whose home, like that of the Houghtons, is at Corning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: First Court | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Court inspected the young man. He seemed alert, intelligent. Sir Leo stated that his own actions on the night in question were merely to take Miss Savage, 22, whom he had known about six months, to dinner, and later to stroll & sit with her in the park. The Court looked again upon the young man, pondered, proceeded to acquit Sir Leo & Miss Savage, and lastly assessed costs of ?10 ($49) against the two too officious bobbies. As Miss Savage left the court the young man swept her into his arms and hugged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Knights Must Play | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Each figure expressed an individual passionate sorrow, yet there was swaying and swooning in groups. It was extraordinarily well done. Responsible for the dramatic composition and the stage direction was Miss Irene Lewisohn.* The voices of invisible singers mingled with the orchestral sounds. The Rembrandt-like picture on the stage was but one more instrument. Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff was at his best; connoisseurs called him great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wailing Wall | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Married. Walter May Jr., 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter May of Pittsburgh; to Miss Florence M. Lebowitz; in Paris; at 25th anniversary of the wedding of his parents, to which 62 U. S. friends had traveled at the expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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