Search Details

Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...event quite as if it happened in broad daylight. For, on the following morning, the President and Mrs. Coolidge staged an after-the-show rehearsal and motored up to the lodge with cameras vigorously grinding. ¶Household employes at the State Lodge are under the supervision of Miss Ellen Reilly, White House housekeeper. Miss Reilly came to the White House some twelve months ago. She had previously been employed in the Boston department store of Frank W. Stearns, where she had charge of the cafeteria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Last week the news came out that Miss Ederle has profited only $20,000 since the day she staggered onto the beach at Kingsdown, England. Her vaudeville act started out to earn $6,000 a week, of which her share was approximately one-third. Her father and Lawyer Malone took one-third of the gross between them; the theatrical agent grabbed 10%, leaving Miss Ederle to pay the expense account of more than $1,000 weekly out of her own share. Recently, her act has fallen considerably below the $6,000 mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Poor Ederle | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...Cosgrave's purpose was to force the split factions of famed Eamonn de Valera and Miss Mary MacSwiney to join forces and enter the Dail. This they have refused to do, alleging their unwillingness to take the oath of fealty to George V, required of every deputy before he can legally take his seat. At present Mr. De Valera stands at the head of 44 Fianna Fail or "Republican" deputies; and Miss MacSwiney is one of six deputies comprising the much blighted and withered Sinn Fein party to which De Valera formerly belonged. Thus, these 50 deputies if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Threats | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

This was a flat challenge to Mr. De Valera and Miss MacSwiney. Would they accept, enter the Dail, stand together? Soon famed Eamon de Valera replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Irish Threats | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...visit to once smart Monte Carlo. Of course the crowds at the Casino tables have been as large as ever-but unfashionable. What to do? The families of Blanc, Radziwill, Bonaparte, chief stockholders in the Casino, have been puzzling for some time. They are now trying an experiment: Miss Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is very large, very mirthful, very well known in the U. S. colony at Paris. There must, naturally, be a number of ladies thereabouts, who, for a consideration, will secure for traveling families of U. S. babbitts an entrée of sorts in Paris. Whether Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONACO: Reorganized | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

Previous | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | 262 | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | Next