Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next morning Mrs. Coolidge received a visitor in the person of Miss Marguerite Lindsley, forest ranger. She, clad in green riding habit, carrying a gun, informed Mrs. Coolidge that at the Montana Agricultural College she had belonged to Mrs. Coolidge's sorority, Pi Beta...
First came the three leading members of the Defense Committee? Gardner Jackson, Aldino Felicani, Mary Donovan. Each kissed the brows of the dead. An uncountable crowd, pushed and prodded into line by police, shuffled stuffily after to scowl, weep or gape. Miss Donovan was arrested when she tried to insert an anti-Judge Thayer placard among the funeral flowers. She was later sentenced to a year in jail, appealed the case. Artist William Gropper of the New Masses was not admitted when he came to make bier portraits...
Back in Cambridge, incendiaries had fired five buildings. In the cemetery, another fire blazed, its smoke trailing thin and mournful from the crematorium's high smokestack. The limousines were parked there, one with its shades drawn to hide the prostration of Miss Luigia Vanzetti, Mrs. Sacco and her son Dante. Mary Donovan and Gardner Jackson of the defense committee had the hardihood to follow into the crematorium after Miss Donovan had read a last eulogy to the dead. They peered through a glassed peephole at the coffins flaming...
...more satisfactory explanation of the unpleasant likeness between photographed dog and alleged master. They surmised (rightly) that a dull Herald Tribune copyreader or proofreader had clumsily elevated a comma after the word Hughes so that it indicated a possessive instead of an appositional phrase. Further they surmised (rightly) that Miss Charles, alert owner of the prize-winning Schnauzer, had given him a name which his appearance richly merited...
Parachute. Miss Myrtle Jarbo plunged from a stunt plane at Toledo, Ohio, secured to a parachute. As she floated earthward, her parents (long divorced) rushed across the flying field to greet her, plunged unexpectedly into each other's arms. Came love. Three days later they remarried...