Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Little Miss Broadway, Shirley is a high-spirited orphan always on the point of breaking into a tap routine or a Walter Bullock-Harold Spina song. She is adopted by a lackadaisical Broadway character (Edward Ellis), who runs a seedy hotel for vaudeville actors. After a while, the exuberance of Jimmy Durante and his five-man orchestra get on the nerves of the lady next door (Edna May Oliver). She owns the hotel, but when she tries to evict the vaudevillians she runs up against Shirley. Shirley captivates the old lady by singing Swing Me an Old Fashioned Song...
...Moody gave San Francisco's Olympic Club as his residence, oil broker as his occupation, divorced as his marital status. Queried by reporters same day, Frederick S. Moody Jr., Olympic Club member, oil broker, divorced husband of Tennist Helen Wills Moody, denied filing the application, denied knowing Miss Gayle. Snapped he: "I was in San Francisco...
...growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly: "I'm taller than Helen Hayes." (Miss Hayes's height: five feet...
Said gracious Miss Roche, elaborating on her February report: "Fifty million Americans are in families receiving less than $1,000 a year. . . . The average cost of private medical care is $76 a person annually. . . . The total [yearly] cost of illness and premature death is $10,000,000,000. We cannot attack successfully with small change a ten-billion-dollar problem." She proposed that the Government embark on a ten-year program to spend $850,000,000 annually. Suggested appropriations: $705,000,000 for expansion of public health facilities, development of maternity and child health centres, financing of medical specialists, eradication...
Answering Miss Roche, diplomatic Dr. Abell at first offered A. M. A. cooperation. Then suddenly the meeting lost its professional poise. Eminent Surgeon Cabot, of the Mayo Clinic, declared: "There are very large areas in this country where the practice of medicine . . . is medieval." Manager West arose and barked: "I don't know whether the medical profession is any more proud of him [Cabot] than he is of the medical profession." As for the plan, he continued "centralization of control of medical service by any State agency" would bring "great danger to the health of the nation." Said Editor...