Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play only begins with them. The laurels are all Miss Eagels'. Throughout the three acts--and she is on the stage practically all the time--she is cold or capricious or coy with a change of pace and a never-failing charm that causes a continuous accompaniment of laughter from the audience...
This course will be followed by a series of three lectures, under other auspices to be announced later, as follows: "Teaching of International Affairs", by Miss H. C. Millaer, Assistant Director of Miss Spence's School, New York City; "The Changing Spirit", by Sir Herbert Ames; "The Limitations of Armaments", by C. A. Herber, Editor of the Independent...
February 21--"Institute of Pacific Relations", Miss Ada Louise Comstock, President of Radcliffe College...
Once again Harvard men have incurred the dire disapprobation of Cambridge collegiate, femininity, and this time the girls of Radcliffe, Sargent, and Miss Leslie's, offended, embarrassed, shocked, have resorted to Cambridge police. For they have endured, even unto the breaking point, the flaunting of the hirsute adornment of bare masculine legs by Harvard men while sipping tea in the refined atmosphere of an elite Harvard Square tea shoppe. According to them the atmosphere of their favorite afternoon rendez-vous is destroyed by half-dressed athletes and, with appropriate modesty and blushes, they insist that hairy nether limbs be confined...
...when the weaker sex so universally expresses admiration of the "cave man" while at the same time upholding that great American slogan, "It's off, because it's out," the problem is an alarming one. The question as to whether the tea-sipping students of Radcliffe, Sargent, and Miss Leslie's should abandon, as they threaten to do, the debated territory of the fashionable tea shoppe to their enemies, the hairy-legged racquetmen, offers possibilities of stone throwing. The female crusader against legs laments a lack of modesty; and the male defendant retorts that "people who wear sheer hose should...