Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...musician, soldier, aviator, orchideous Italian. When he came ashore, it was announced that his Isotta-motored* boat had attained a speed of 127 kilometres (78.9 miles) per hour, unofficially a new world's record. The fastest previously recorded speed for motorboats, made by Gar A. Wood's Miss America, in 1920, was 70 m.p.h...
...curent issue of Scribner's Magadine Miss Frances Warfield writes bitterly on the results of education as it is practised in the large women's colleges of the East. She names no names, but by the frequent references to Boston one gathers that it is a college with which all Bostonians are familiar; a secluded place of wooded hills above a lake, which, to the student at a neighboring men's college, at least, does not ordinarily call up ideas of such cruel satire...
...girl's college alone; but if, as she seems to think, higher education at one of the best feminine institutions is nothing more than a farce, it would be too sanguine to suppose that even the top rank of men's universities are above criticism. Unfortunately for Miss Warfield, however, she does not prove her case. She says with the satiric generalization which has become popular in the last decade, that the typical "college woman." If she hered; and, largely as a result of this veneer, thin but adequate, of culture; learns a few catch phrases to repeat whenever...
...anything else. In short, she draws a picture of cultural devotion around the woodland lake. That there are some students in women's colleges whose interest in learning, whether the result of a scarcity of dates or not, affords them great pleasure and a deeper outlook on life than Miss Warfield seems to have acquired, she does not for a moment consider. That even those whose undergraduate days were little more than a succession of dances and triumphs in feminine politics and sports may still have profited somewhat, even by the thin veneer of culture, she also leaves...
...friend to escape a cad. The villain forthwith orders her husband to Tripoli. Following him into the desert, she falls in love with her handsome officer escort, marries him when her husband's death is reported. Her husband returns, only to commit convenient suicide. Endless shots of Miss Goudal staring vacantly into space between scenes of bloody Arab forays, slow up the action...