Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...streets. It was fun. Hot oysters and cold bottles. "Promiscuous masking," said the official program. It was a fine old tradition. The gentility rules the city. Their clubs-Comus (the oldest), Atlanteans, Momus, Proteus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, Druids-gave balls and there was much whispering as to whether little Miss Such-&-Such got any invitations. Then there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year's Rex. The new Rex was Leon Irwin, insurance man, to whom Mayor...
...first woman air mail passenger from New York to San Francisco was Miss Candis Hall, daughter of Myron S. Hall of New York City, who made the journey in 41 hours. She liked...
Married. Britton Ihrie Budd, 56, president of the Chicago Rapid Transit Co. ("L") lines; to Miss Marie Sheehan, 31, his onetime private secretary; in Chicago...
...publisher of the Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, etc., etc.) uses pretty-girl covers for his magazines. Such covers are usually inspired by pretty models. Such a model is Miss Peggy Burns of Philadelphia, Pa., who last week on her 21st birthday inherited $500,000 from her grandfather. Said she : "I am not going to quit work. I like my work." One of her first acts after receiving the inheritance was to collect $100 from an artist for posing for the cover of the current Ladies' Home Journal...
...Married. Miss Martha C. Codman, 60, heiress, of Newport and Washington, D.C.; to Maxim Rarolik, 30, Russian tenor who made his Manhattan debut in 1924; on the Cote d'Azur, Southern France...