Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some election items: New Hampshire. Miss H. Gwendolyn Jones, wholesome 26-year-old graduate of the State University, tried to become the mayor of Concord and thus first woman mayor in New England on a campaign expenditure of $25, with one 15-minute speech per day. Flood conditions hampered voting. Miss Jones lost to Mayor Fred N. Marden, 2,200 to 4,464. Miss Jones said she would now study law at Yale University...
...Engaged. Miss Mary Tumulty, daughter of Joseph Patrick Tumulty of Washington, onetime (1913-21) Secretary to the late President Wood-row Wilson; to one Robert Cahill...
...Married. Miss Janet Kirby, daughter of famed Rollin Kirby, political cartoonist for the New York World; to Langdon W. Post, cinema critic of the New York Evening World and unsuccessful Democratic nominee for New York Assemblyman at last week's election; in Manhattan...
...cooks fresh from Germany & Hungary whose new mis-resses had ruled that they needed further drill. Housewives too attended-housewives of all grades, good ones who wished to excel, doubtful ones who wished to pass muster. They heard lectures in the New York City Town Hall (capacity 1,500). Miss Florence Brobeck supervised the cooks & housewives. She it is who prints each Sunday good advice on recipes, household appliances, marketing information, dietetics & child feeding, decorating & furnishing, restaurant service, etc., etc. She is chief of the famed Herald-Tribune Institute. Five years ago she received each week at least 75 requests...
Doubtless, some there are who will miss the finally rounded periods, the pretty, artificial prose of more leisurely men. They will object to the monotony of the author's direct, simple sentences. True, there is nothing leisurely about Mr. Hemingway's style: he goes quickly to seize the barest vital essentials, presenting them in the most concise, dram- atic manner. This directness, this simplicity is necessary to the author's purpose, the presentation of reality. What man, we may ask, with more complicated literary machinery, has ever come so near that goal? Mr. Hemingway finds life a very crude...