Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last year attracted attention by a sound piece of debunking called Chicago. She took her material for Revelry from the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and for local color she went to Washington, moseyed about the lobby halls, chatted with the politicians, pried, snooped, took notes. To see Miss Watkins, whose beauty is fresh and sweet as the first blush of a primrose, one won- ders how she ever accumulated the authentic mass of profanity let loose in her play. Perhaps it is because she once wrote for a Chicago newspaper. Certainly it is not because she studied in Professor...
...Durant, Miss., a great piece of cheese lay on a massive platform last week. The cheese weighed 2,000 Ibs. and in its way was as notable as the notables who stood about it, sniffed at it, rolled a slice from its savory bulk over their tongues-Governor Dennis Murphree of Mississippi, President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of the Illinois Central, President John H. Kraft of the Kraft Cheese Co., and many another...
...Kramer of McComb, Miss., last week announced that next month he would have a cheese factory operating at McComb, and quickly thereafter four more-at Magnolia, Liberty, Osyka and Tylertown, Miss. Five condenseries are also to be built in the state- at Starkville, Aberdeen, Tupelo, Kosciusko and Macon...
...Engaged. Miss Dorothy Michelson, daughter of Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed Chicago scientist to Sheldon Dick, son of Albert Blake Dick, president of A. B. Dick Co. of Chicago, manufacturers of labor saving devices...
Married. Joseph Wesley Harper, great grandson of Joseph Harper, founder of Harper & Brothers, publishers; .to Miss Constance Garland, (illustrator of her father's (Author Hamlin Garland's) books...