Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report events there literally, tersely.-ED. Higgins-Hawley Sirs: At suggestion of several friends here in the Plaza Hotel and some of my staff in the Imperial Oil Co., Canada-Toronto-I sent you ten days ago news note regarding marriage of my son Louis Severance Higgins to Miss Hawley of Toronto, Oct. 9. I thought you might cover in your issue 16 or 23 Sept. We are subscribers to TIME at the Plaza Hotel. Toronto family are as well. I appreciate you cannot do this for all, but I thought in this instance you would as his name connects...
Helen Hicks, a stocky girl from Hewlett, L. I., with fat cheeks and muscular legs, has become one of the best women golf players in the world by imitating her friend Maureen Orcutt. Miss Orcutt, shy and broad-shouldered, with a jaw like a prizefighter's, became good enough to be the idol of Miss Hicks by trying to be as good as Glenna Collett. Thus the three most famed of the competitors who gathered at the Oakland Hills Club in Birmingham, Mich., last week to decide the Women's National Championship composed a sequence with Hicks...
...page. And since taste succeeds even where substance is lacking, this English triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter for winks and nudges. Mr. Wodehouse translated it from the German of Siegfried Geyer, embellished it with his own impish slang and metaphor. Miss Lawrence plays the part of a cuddlesome lady with a crinkly nose who accepts a blind date over the telephone and presently finds herself received by a debonair, ingenuous Prince-Mr. Howard. Asked if he has many mistresses, he observes: "They do pile up." She is even more enchanted...
...Miss Tucker, who is an ardent admire of England, is planning to return there shortly to take a principal part in a play by Jack Hurlburt and Paul Murray. Recently she has been making personal appearances at the showings of her talking picture, "Honky-Tonk...
Some of These Days", which Miss Tucker made for the Columbia firm some time ago, has been a best seller, and is still in some demand around Harvard Square. Her other similar records have met with responsive receptions at the time of issue...