Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss Derbyshire's 6 gifts will cost $22.50. Each of her six friends will receive on Christmas day a greeting card announcing her gift. Christmas gift subscriptions start with the Dec. 26 issue (published Dec. 23) unless contrary instructions are given...
...seems an unkind fate which will leave his chair vacant at our approaching twenty-fifth anniversary. We shall miss him increasingly as years pass...
Others who will be present or have allowed their names to be used include the following: Mrs. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mrs. C. A. Pratt, Mrs. C. B. Barnes, Miss B. V. Brown, Dean of Radcliffe College. Mrs. James Burns, Mrs. G. H. Chase, Mrs. P. P. Chase, Mrs. Stanley Cunningham, Mrs. W. B. Donham Mrs. G. H. Edgell, Mrs. D. L. Edsall, Mrs. L. J. Franklin, Mrs. Joseph Guarnaccia, Mrs. A. C. Hanford, Mrs. C. S. Harper, Mrs. H. W. Holmes, Mrs. James Lawrence, Mrs. J. A. Lord, Mrs. E. C. Moore, Mrs. John Parkinson. Mrs. R. B. Perry...
...Married. Miss Mary MacLennan, daughter of Frank P. MacLennan, editor & publisher of the Topeka State-Journal; to one James A. Farrell* of New York; in Topeka, Kan. In 1897 Editor MacLennan installed a new press on which was inscribed "Mary" in gold letters. On Oct. 29, 1927, the first press was succeeded by "Mary the Third." Said the State-Journal: "So it's good-bye to 'Mary the First,' and 'how do you do' to 'Mary the Third...
...Atlantic City beauty contest and the book-a-month club are the only survivals of the institutions that reward the winner with really lavish bounty. In the lottery one might win a considerable second prize; in the two survivals there are no second prizes worthy of the name. Miss Kankakee hushes up her shame at being, so to speak, nosed out by Miss Tulsa; similarly the self-respecting author will never vaunt the fact that he has received honorable mention for November. Both are freeze-out games in the fullest sense. Many come and but one is chosen...