Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 2,000 leaders among U. S. women workers gathered last week at Oakland, Calif. They were delegates to the annual convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, an organization with a membership of 60,000 and a surplus of $17,000. With Miss Lena Madesin Phillips presiding they discussed various topics of economic feminism...
...Persons telephoning the State Lodge are not always successful in establishing personal communication with the President or Mrs. Coolidge. But Miss Angie Conrad of Rapid City never has trouble in securing the attention of Mrs. Coolidge. Miss Conrad is an employee of the meat market at which Mrs. Coolidge buys provisions. And when Lodge attendants answer the telephone and hear that "Schuster's Meat Market" is talking, they know that the call should be put through. With Miss Ellen Riley,. White House housekeeper, still on sick leave, Mrs. Coolidge has been doing the presidential family shopping...
...White was born in Baltimore in 1850. In 1879 he married Miss Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherfurd, sister-in-law of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Mrs. White died in 1916. In 1920 Mr. White married Mrs. Emily Vanderbilt Sloane, who survives...
...Lilias, later married Terrence Down. When Lilias came to Paris after the War, Terrence was not blind to her bright beauty; but when she no longer dazzled his gaze, he returned to his wife, leaving Lilias to pursue her wayward course through a firmament of masculine sparks and fires. Miss Hoyt's writing has the shine together with the unaccountability of planetary motion. Gayly arranging the paths of her spheres, she, like another metaphorical Manipulator of Constellations, makes no explanations. She rules out reasons and motives; indicates that her little galaxy is, like a display of fireworks, intended only...
...means badly written, by no means devoid of interest, The Mallets, like Miss Young's last book William, is lifted above the commonplace by those valuable staples, sympathy and insight. These staples are sufficiently in evidence to make many readers of English novels, eaters of English muffins, consume this sturdy literary muffin and find it good...