Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Southern California took a live pig to Palo Alto. The pig has been blessed by Cinemactress Marion Davies, and presented to Captain Drury of Southern California as a mascot. Drury played a small part in Miss Davies' latest cinema The Fair Coed. He played a large part in California's clash with Stanford; plunging 41 times for an average of 4 yards per plunge. California scored 13. Badly outplayed, Stanford gave Fleish-hacker the ball for seven successive hacks; stole a touchdown in the dying seconds of the last period; tied the game. The pig pouted...
They have long been buried who fought and died at Vicksburg, Miss. Where the Confederate Army made its greatest stand, now stands a National Military Park. There was nothing really paradoxical about last week's ceremony at Vicksburg when Major General Frank B. Cheatham, U. S. A., representing Secretary. of War Dwight Filley Davis, accepted for the Federal Government a memorial statue of the president and commander-in-chief of the Confederacy which tried to overthrow that Government, Jefferson Davis...
...properly upon the U. S., Governor Dennis Murphree did not rely on his own eloquence but turned to pungent, quizzical onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator John Sharp Williams, who went to Vicksburg for the occasion from his retirement on his gardenia-fragrant plantation, "Cedar Grove," near Yazoo City, Miss...
...Miss Elder's backers are reported to have ordered her to reveal nothing regarding the flight in order not to rob the story of its commercial and journalistic value ?which is typically American and businesslike. "?Echo de Paris...
...plane. I've promoted projects in Canada and I've promoted oil wells, and I have been promoting operations in Florida, and now I've promoted the first girl across the Atlantic. That's what she means when she wires 'You done it'"?Thomas Henry McArdle, Miss Elder's manager...