Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mass. (1910-11) he and Mrs. Coolidge could frequently be seen driving home from a shopping expedition, their car loaded with provisions purchased by Mrs. Coolidge. The same sight was last week seen in the streets of Rapid City, as Mrs. Coolidge had again become her own housekeeper. For Miss Ellen Riley, who came out from Washington to act as housekeeper at the State Lodge, fell ill, was sent to Rochester, Minn., for an operation. Instead of appointing a temporary successor, Mrs. Coolidge herself assumed the duties of directing the State Lodge domestics. She began her new work by rising...
...Married. Miss Etienne Lawrence, daughter of David Lawrence, famed Washington journalist and president of the United States Daily; to Herbert Carl Sturhahn, famed footballer, twice (1925, 1926) All-American guard (Yale); in Washington...
Twenty-two red legs carrying eleven redskins were throbbing over the 480-mile Redwood Highway between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore. The red lips of Miss Redwood Empire, "little fawn" of the Hopi Indians, greeted John Mad Bull of the Karook tribe when he staggered across the finish line last week-the winner of the marathon. He had covered the 480 miles (longest footrace ever held in the U. S.) in 7 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes. He was rewarded with a $1,000 prize, to which he added $50 to purchase an automobile...
...women writers concentrate on the opposite sex. Her best characters have all been women. Her themes, it is true, often concern women doing men's work, organizing their lives toward a new freedom. The Lovely Ship in manner bears some resemblance to the writings of Joseph Hergesheimer, but Miss Jameson is more interested in making her people live than in describing ten-course dinners. Her performance in this book is one of almost pure perfection. An intention beautifully realized excuses an occasional prolixity. An infrequent weakness is overbalanced by Miss Jameson's subtlety in emotional perceptions, her shining...
...book by Authors Eames and Marshall appears actually to have been written by them. Miss Eames is a tall, determined younger sister of Actress Clare Eames and writes for the New Yorker...