Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seat on the New York Stock Exchange. Apparently she has the two major qualifications for admission to the most expensive and least exclusive club in the world: $375,000, and that firmness of jaw possessed by exquisite, merciless croupiers who rake chips on Monte Carlo's greens. Miss Peggy Cleary's training has been sound. She was and is a star customer's woman.* Last week 1,100 brokers at 20 posts applauded Miss Cleary's audacity. Next week 1,099 members may have a chance to "haze" a pretty young stockbroker in skirts.f For Miss Cleary is pretty. Last...
...Miami Beach, Miss America V twice lowered the world's hydroplane record for six miles, averaging first 50.72 and then...
Engaged. Percy Aldridge Grainger, 45, curly-headed Australian pianist composer, to Miss Ella Viola Strom, Swedish poetess. Said Mr. Grainger, "She is ... a radiant Nordic?as lovely as the morning. ..." The honeymoon; tramps in Glacier National Park, Montana and in Iceland...
...Engaged. Miss Catherine Smith, 22, younger daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; to Francis J. Quillinan, a deputy Attorney General of New York State and member of the legal staff of U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner...
Married. Wilton Lackaye, 62, veteran actor (Trelawney of the Wells, Trilby), of Manhattan; to Miss Katherine Alberta Riley, 37, nurse, of Manhattan; by the priest who administered the last sacraments to Mr. Lackaye a year...