Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this paragraph you also say that while the new Governor is a Republican, the departmental staff "is Democratic to a man." It is Democratic but not "to a man." Mrs. Emma Guy Cromwell is the new State Treasurer, Miss Ella Lewis the new Secretary of State...
...Lloyd George crossed the Equator and was rousingly ducked in consequence by "Father Neptune." Miss Megan Lloyd George confided to ship companions that she plans to stand for Parliament on returning to England...
Even after she had so soundly rebuked the pettiness of one criticism and removed the basis for the other, Agnes Maude Royden was not reinvited to speak in Chicago or Boston, where the women felt that "Miss Royden . . . stood for certain principles which our organization did not care to sponsor ... it might do harm to our youth.'' Detroit women characterized the criticism of Miss Royden as "absurd," but in Philadelphia, after reading the reports of her arrival, women's clubs retracted their invitations. Some women spoke sharply of "Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge...
...Engaged. Miss Elizabeth Briggs, of Detroit, daughter of Walter 0. Briggs, chairman of the board of the Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies); to Charles T, Fisher Jr., of Detroit, son of Charles T. Fisher, founder of the Fisher Body Corp. (automobile bodies) and vice president of General Motors Corp...
...another letter the English writer expresses his gratitude to Miss Lowell for a copy of another one of her books; "I fear I am late in thanking you for your kind gift of 'Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds'." The only known manuscript copy of this volume is in the possession of Widener Library...