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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...storm of nationwide editorial comment, the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News led Southern shouters by declaring that "The De Priest incident has placed President and Mrs. Hoover beyond the pale of social recognition by Southern people." It advised them not to visit the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: De Priest Sequelac | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Married. Irving K. Pond, 72, of Chicago, architect, acrobat, first footballer to score a touchdown for University of Michigan in an intercollegiate game; and Miss Katherine N. de Nancrede, of Ann Arbor. Mich., in Ann Arbor, where Mr. Pond's college class was having its 50th reunion. Architect Pond, who prides himself and takes joy in his septuagenarian handsprings and back somersaults (TIME, May 16, 1927, et seq.), said (of his marriage) : "It's the first time I ever did it. I think I ought to be pardoned because of my youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Married. Hiram Edward Manville Jr. of Manhattan and Pleasantville, N. Y., son of the asbestos tycoon; and Ethel Bredt Schniewind. Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Married. Laird Shields Goldsborough. Associate Editor (Foreign News) of TIME, to Miss Florence McConaughy of York, England; in Goldsborough Church, Goldsborough, Yorkshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

University of Wisconsin Walter C. Murray, college president (Saskatchewan, Canada) LL.D. Zona Gale Breese, author (Miss Lulu Belt) D.Litt. Carl von Marr, artist D.Litt. Ole Edvart Rolvaag, author (Giants in the Earth) D.Litt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Sardis, Miss., in 1921, 500 men and women collected a mass of leaves. To a log in the middle, they fastened Henry Lowry. When his feet began to roast they brought his wife and small daughter to see how Lowry strained to swallow hot ashes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Judge Lynch | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

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