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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contended that Miss Berger had saved Rod La Roque some $24,000 tax payments on a $182,779 income in 1927. Other of her clients were William Haines and Dorothy Mackaill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cinemanipulation | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Last week "Captain Barker" was arrested again. Her offense before the law was not that she had worn men's clothes, or even that she had persuaded Miss Alfreda Emma Howard of Littlehampton, Sussex, to marry her, but on a common charge' of perjury, for she 'had falsely sworn in high court that she was "Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker," when she was really Mrs. Lilias Irma Valerie Barker Smith, mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Callipygian Captain | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...most part, however, it is great good fun. There is the preposterous old plot which was taken bodily from Faust. And there is some very lovely dancing and singing by Miss Beth Meakins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Hoboken | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Hamilton Webster Thayer, of Hopedale, Mass., son of Judge Webster Thayer of Worcester, Mass., who gave the Sacco-Vanzetti decision; to Miss Elizabeth Wood of Manhattan, niece of famed Boston Broker Henry Hornblower (Hornblower & Weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Died. Helen Resch, 20, Viennese actress, mistress of Prince Ernest Windischgraetz, 24, grandson of the late Emperor Franz Josef; by suicide (gas), in Vienna. The Prince's engagement to an opulent aristocrat had just been announced. Miss Resch also asphyxiated her baby, her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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