Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astronomical colloquium will be held, today, at 4.15 o'clock, in Building A, of the Harvard Observatory. Miss Emma T. R. Williams will lecture on "Bobrovnikoff on Minor Planets" and Doctor Cecilia H. Payne on "Atmospheres of Giant and Dwarf Stars...
Much as his students in the Architectural School will miss the leadership of Professor Pray, they are but the least to regret his loss. A whole profession is the poorer for his passing...
...Lindbergh engagement was incredible not only to dream-sick young girls. Mr. Morrow's good friend and Englewood, N. J., neighbor, potent Board Chairman Seward Prosser of the Bankers' Trust Co., could not believe his ears when he heard the announcement by radio. ¶ In Mexico City, Miss Anne Spencer Morrow, 22, five-feet-five, brunette, blue-eyed, literary, bashfully quiet, shrank from the glare of being her country's Hero's fiancee. Her father let the world guess, without assistance, at the time and place of the wedding. Industrious press ferrets brought up Miss Morrow...
...Miss Colbert's début with the Theatre Guild, a happy event for both. She is a small brunette of perfect symmetry and French antecedents. New York first discovered her in A Kiss in a Taxi in 1925. Since then she has played in The Barker (in which she met Actor Norman Foster, whom she married), The Pearl of Great Price, The Mulberry Bush, The Ghost Train, Fast Life, and Tin Pan Alley. She has gifts which the Guild undoubtedly will magnify...
...dramatic lapse, perhaps, but an exultant climax to the even tenor of sadness that pervades the book. Miss Wylie's characters are extremely given to hurting each other and themselves, like the pea-feeling princess. This quality of sensitive thorough-bredness makes them immensely appealing-if just a touch fairytale...