Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Miss) CURTIS WAGER-SMITH...
...months, lay Earl Carroll, Manhattan theatrical producer, sentenced to a year and a day in Atlanta Penitentiary after being convicted of perjury in connection with Miss Joyce Hawley's famed champagne bath at the Carroll party of Feb. 22, 1926. Collapsing en route to Atlanta (April 13), he had been taken to the Greenville (S. C.) Hospital, had there remained...
Replied Florence: "Poules ? 'chickens,' your Royal Highness?" Then, dropping into Harlemese, as she seldom does, Miss Jones addressed the crowd, pointing at Edward of Wales: "Poules! He as' me 'bout poules! Hey-ho! Haah! Jus' look who's askin...
Edward, fairly caught, laughed among the first; and since then Miss Jones has been an all-licensed Negress. Nightly she coaxes or drags celebrities out on her jazz floor, makes them perform, makes them ridiculous to their own intense delight-for the crowd are all clannishly impersonal and good-humored. Therefore, last week Prince Henry was not irked when Miss Jones sought to draft him as a contestant in an impromptu black bottom contest...
Florence's chic ankles twinkled toward him. Her figure is svelte, lithe-though she does not dance-her voice sultry, a blues voice. At a curt nod from her the huge, perspiring black who is Miss Jones' husband snapped his hot-time jazz baton. Prince Henry hesitated, then rose, followed Florence out on the floor and black-bottomed...