Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours, La Baker was not subjected, last week, to ordeal by bombs...
...should triumph, a deputation of rival Christian Socialists waited upon their great but dour leader, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, Chancellor of Austria, and besought him to "prevent the nude, brazen-faced and heathen dances of Fraeulein Josephine Baker from taking place anywhere in Austria." Chancellor Seipel, perhaps reliably informed that Miss Baker always wears some article of adornment when she dances, sternly cut short a Deputy who rose in Parliament to interpolate the Government upon its intentions...
...enough to vote, she has earned $334,892 in the last two years in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary. Buxom sweet singer from the middle west, she is sought for concerts the country over. The figure was divulged last week by concert manager Francis C. Coppicus with whom Miss Talley is about to part on none too friendly terms...
Robert Frost is also represented by autographed copies given to Miss Lowell, one of which is inscribed, "For Amy Lowell from Robert Frost for one regular rhymster from another;" and a later book has the autograph; "For Amy Lowell, immortal author of many poems, from her friend and admirer, Robert Frost." Frost attended the University from 1897 to 1899 and is now living at Shaftsbury...
There is also in the collection a few impromptu poems and drawings which Vachel Lindsay gave to Miss Lowell. One poem, especially, entitled "Sunrise on Easter Day," is illustrated with pen and ink sketches of a rabbit. In the drawings the letters AMY LOWELL are found as in a puzzle...