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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lady From the Sea. Miss Blanche Yurka is entitled to one of the awards of the season for her loyalty to Henrik Ibsen. In a year which has been marked by the presentation of a great number of dull modern plays, theatre-goers have not been allowed to forget Ibsen's searching studies. Her selection of this strange, borderland work is not altogether fortunate. It is not so easy of interpretation as The Wild Duck and Hedda Gabler, her other offerings, nor is its principal character so suited to Miss Yurka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

Florenz Ziegfeld has written the preface to "Secrets of Charm", by Josephine Huddleston, which Putnam's have published this week. The book is having its premiere at the first annual National Beauty Show which is being held at Grand Central Palace. New York City, March 27 April 3, where Miss Huddleston is Official Mistress of Ceremonies for the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/30/1929 | See Source »

...soldier, when the two friends, as alleged, gave him the documents, to accept them as genuine. Neither would she, after her husband's death, have thought them worth treasuring until her own death, nor would she have had any interest in passing them on her niece, the mother of Miss Minor, as genuine documents. Therefore, unless the earlier existence of the documents can be clearly proved, the only two people whom we need consider as their source are Miss Minor's mother and Miss Minor herself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINCOLN LETTERS EXPOSED TO LIGHT OF NEW ANALYSIS | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

...soldier, when the two friends, as alleged, gave him the documents, to accept them as genuine. Neither would she, after her husband's death, have thought them worth treasuring until her own death, nor would she have had any interest in passing them on her niece, the mother of Miss Minor, as genuine documents. Therefore, unless the earlier existence of the documents can be clearly proved, the only two people whom we need consider as their source are Miss Minor's mother and Miss Minor herself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STANDISH DEFEATS SMITH AT BIG TREE | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

Movies will be shown of Tilden and Hunter, American men stars who are trying to regain America's tennis prestige, and of Cochet, Bragnon and Borotra, French internationalists and holders of the Davis Cup. Miss Helen Wills, queen of the world's tennis courts, will also be shown in action. Coach Harry Cowles, coach of University and Freshman tennis, is to talk on tennis and explain the various styles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO SHOW PICTURES OF TENNIS STARS TONIGHT | 3/28/1929 | See Source »

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