Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such intrigues, questioned Miss Stanton, proceed from "the arrogance of a race long accustomed to wage war, with modern military equipment, on backward people"? Miss Stanton clearly thought so, and spoke like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...
Near Stops Landing, Miss., thousands of workers were piling sandbags on a tottering levee. The embankment gave way, many of its defenders were drowned as they scrambled toward higher land beyond. The collapse of the Stops Landing levee forced the abandonment of the town of Greenville, Miss., whose population of 15,000 had been increased by the arrival of 10,000 refugees. Hordes of Negroes clustered on the Greenville levee, 25 feet wide and three miles long. Steamers brought them tents, taking white people from the town hotels and taller houses...
...door came Miss L. S. W. Perkins, who 30 years ago was 53, when she entertained "a little bride and groom." Last week Miss Perkins was so flustered at the bridegroom's return, that her physician expressed concern lest the excitement prove too great a strain on her 83-year-old constitution. When the onetime Premier approached, however, Miss Perkins rallied, greeted him warmly, pressed a dry kiss on Ishbel's wholesome cheek. Followed luncheon, newsgatherers excluded...
Though his condition was not serious, last week, he sent Ishbel to substitute at several Manhattan gatherings which were to have been addressed by the onetime Premier. Miss MacDonald, sensibly clad, read out greetings from her father from platforms...
...Miss Eloysa Levine, nine-year-old daughter of New York-Paris Flight-Backer Charles Levine, patriotically christened the Wright-Bellanca monoplane Columbia, (TIME, May 2) with a tepid bottle of ginger ale. Afterwards, laughing, she climbed into the Columbia with her friend Grace Jonas, Superintendent John Carisi and Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin for a ride. As the plane took off, a bolt was sheared in the shock absorbers, crippling the landing dolly, meaning disaster 99 out of a 100 cases...