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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press, newsgatherers at once sought to question Cary Travers Grayson M. D., the naval physician whom Woodrow Wilson raised to a Rear-Admiral's rank and kept beside him at the White House. But Dr. Grayson was inaccessible in Europe. From the late President's daughters-Miss Margaret Wilson, Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo-came no statements. The President's widow was inaccessible in the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Wilson's Infirmity | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...crash of certain stocks on Change; Russian recognition; Unemployment; the Coal Mining situation; Slum Clearance. It acquiesced in the appointment of the keen little Crippled Chancellor as Acting Prime Minister. Also the Cabinet listened to its chief's words of regret about having to miss the impending conclave of the Labor Party at Brighton.* Finally, of course, the Prime Minister explained once more why he was going abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Voyage Exploratory | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

...climax, contains such venerable stage devices as the arrival of an unexpected legacy just in time to save the furniture from ravening creditors. But under the capable handling of a cast headed by Janet Beecher it takes on a plausibility and conviction that makes the final impression eminently satisfactory. Miss Beecher has the inherently unsympathetic role of a widowed mother who has squandered her childrens' patrimony through a combination of poor business judgement and extravagance and whose compensating virtues are limited to a determination to keep them-with her and a touching habit of buying roses when the source...

Author: By R. L. W. jr., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/4/1929 | See Source »

...Divisions of Music and Fine Arts, and for the benefit of The MacDowell Colony League of Cambridge, a monologue recital will be given at John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building on Tuesday evening, October 15, at 8.15 o'clock. The artist of the evening, Miss Helen Howe, daughter of M. A. DeWolfe Howe '87, famous editor and biographer, is a well-known original monologist and gives promise of a unique entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONOLOGUIST TO APPEAR IN ARTISTS' BENEFIT | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

...Died. Miss Josephine Crist Delmonko, last of her name to operate the old time (defunct since 1923) Manhattan restaurant which her great-grand-uncle founded; in Mount Kisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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