Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, June 6 you publish under the heading CHINA the account of an interview with Miss Faith Williams, the daughter of Dr. John E. Williams, who was murdered at Nanking on March 24 by a Chinese soldier during the outrageous attack on foreigners deliberately undertaken by the so-called Nationalist government. _ You state: "She spoke with more animation of the firing, in reprisal, upon Nanking by a British and a U. S. warboat...
...Virtually isolated by the Allies, all his messages subject to censorship, his next dilemma was to warn his government of the approaching Japanese declaration of war. This he did by sending an ingenious, uncoded telegram, so harmless in appearance that the Allies let it go through: "My engagement to Miss Butterfly expected hourly. Please inform parents...
...match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile Maureen Orcutt, whose name (someone observed) sounds like a hair tonic, destroyed the alien Miss Mackenzie-2 and 1 Miss Orcutt is metropolitan champion and the huge gallery did not regard her nervousness, revealed by constantly snapping fingers, fatal to the finals. They pointed to jets of cigaret smoke issuing from the obviously nervous nose of Mrs. Horn. This was no way to win a test...
Married. William Beebe, 50, famed scientist, explorer, author; to Miss Elswyth Ricker ("Elswyth Thane"), 27, novelist; on a yacht off Oyster Bay, L. I. Present were Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. & others. Mr. Beebe was divorced from his first wife, the onetime Mary Blair Rice, in 1913. One week later she married one Robin Niles of Manhattan...
...Married. Miss Flora M. Vare, niece of U. S. Senator-Elect William Scott Vare of Pennsylvania; to one John R. Williams, Jr.; in Ambler, Penn...