Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Straightway a former subordinate member of the Commission, Mr. Herbert F. Manisty, a practicing barrister, informed the press that, in his opinion, Miss Cavell was tried by a competent court and was convicted of the offense for which she was tried, namely "furnishing and supplying men to the enemy...
...Berlin, last week, Dr. Gottfried Benn, onetime Chief Surgeon for the German Army in the Brussels area, declared that he had been an eyewitness of the execution of Miss Cavell and had signed the certificate attesting her death. According to Dr. Benn, Nurse Cavell was blindfolded and tied by her hands to a stake. Thereafter she remained standing until "hit and instantly killed by 12 bullets...
Many a U. S. theatregoer thinks of Miss Marilyn Miller as a pair of pirouetting toes plus a face as fresh & frank as a buttercup. Contrarily, in France, it is the frankness of her tongue that is remembered, resented. Last summer she declared, "Paris is the easiest place in the world to get a divorce-better even than Reno!" Last autumn she got herself a Versailles divorce from Cinemactor Jack Pickford. The result was that when tidings of her frank flippancy, and that of other U. S. divorce seekers in Paris, reached the ears of staid, august Minister of Justice...
Thus by insistence upon the letter of the law, in obedience to Minister of Justice Barthou, the Versailles court made a glaring example of the case of a U. S. citizen of first prominence. In Manhattan his wife, the onetime Miss Nathalie Sedgwick remarked, "Poor Bainbridge! He never seems to get what he wants!" In more decorous mood, Mrs. Colby has said that Mr. Colby is "far too colossal a figure" to have been encompassed by any of her novels...
Convicted Dr. Rongetti's operation-upon the body of one Miss Loretta J. Enders of Chicago-was replete with rude accidents...