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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman who would soon be off adventurously to Moscow. She was Dorothy Thompson, the clever, penetrating Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, which are owned by Sateveposter Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As she sat, nibbling an olive from the depths of her cocktail, Miss Thompson (divorced) looked pleasantly incapable of delving into Soviet Russia and returning to set down her experiences and observations in almost 100,000 businesslike words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sovietdom Penetrated | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

Helene will be characterized by Miss Allison Hardy, while Miss Elizabeth Lyman will play the part of la Baronne de Vaubert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINAL CERCLE FRANCAIS PLAY CAST IS CHOSEN | 3/31/1928 | See Source »

...however, you are like the reviewer and have no predetermined feeling for or against Miss Daniels, the matter becomes more difficult-if you take your movie going seriously enough to wonder about such things. The show tries awfully hard to be a roaring, ripsnorting tale of a milk-fed, misanthropic young lady-Miss Daniels-who gets mixed up in a a war among bootleggers, hi-jackers, and revenue officers. After numberless corpses have been strewn about the scene, she is able to declare that at last she has found Adventure and Romance with a capital "A" and a capital...

Author: By G. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Sinclair Lewis, most derisive of U. S. novelists, specialist on babbitts, medicos, parsons; to Miss Dorothy Thompson, foreign correspondent of the New York Evening Post. From Naples, Arthur Lewis vigorously denied the engagement, pronouncing the rumor "ridiculous and even libelous." Mrs. Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis is now in Reno, admittedly to obtain a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Frances Alda (soprano, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, czar of the Metropolitan Opera Company) has no children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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