Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morrisville High School, in Doylestown, Pa., Miss Mary Bones was the instructor in athletics: Miss Ruth Steiner, a brawny girl, was the captain of the girls' basketball team. One afternoon, a youth, watching Ruth Steiner as she capered in dusty bloomers, squawked to her teammates, was moved to make an insulting remark. Infuriated, Ruth Steiner asked Miss Bones to make the youth apologize. Miss Bones re- fused, smiling at the intensity of Ruth Steiner. Later when they met on the street, Ruth Steiner grabbed Miss Bones, punched her face, scratched her shoulders, kicked her shins. Last week Ruth Steiner...
Another boy constructed a glider and flew 1,000 feet off a California cliff. He was Lloyd W. Bertaud, aged 12. Grown-up he became an Army instructor in the War; an airmail pilot, a stunt flyer. Five years ago he went into the air with Miss Helen Lent of New York, and Belvin W. Maynard, "the flying-parson." The Reverend Maynard shouted a service into their ears; they came down to earth as Mr. & Mrs. Bertaud. Last week Lloyd Bertaud came down again, but not to earth. He splashed into the ocean, disappeared...
Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...
Married. Charles Brandon Booth, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America, National Field Secretary of the Big Brother & Sister Movement in America; to Miss Betsy Ross, charity worker; at Webster...
Married. Richard Washburn Child, 46, author, onetime (1919) editor of Collier's magazine, one-time (1921-24) Ambassador to Italy; to his literary secretary, Miss Eva Sanderson; in Stroudsburg...