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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...replica of the Ambassador's famous ballroom--and the former when he wins the hand of Harriet Hilliard. A plot like this calls for strong support, and this is not lacking. Eve Arden and Ben Blue do an excellent burlesque of ballroom dancing; the Yacht Club Boys perform capably; Miss Hilliard sings Harry Owens' "Says My Heart"; and a child named Billy Lee does a really remarkable job at the drums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...second opinion was delivered by Associate Justice Florence Ellinwood Allen, only woman on the U. S. appeals bench, who stands well enough with the Administration to have been mentioned last year as a possible Supreme Court appointee. Sturdy Miss Allen laid down the first judicial yardstick of the lengths to which employers need go in trying to bargain with a union, displaying as much anxiety about quasi-judicial practices as that expressed last week by Charles Evans Hughes (see col. 2). Said she: "The statute merely requires the employer to negotiate sincerely. The sincerity is to be tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Necessary Emphasis | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Engaged-Yehudi Menuhin, 21, concert violinist and onetime boy prodigy; and Nola Nicholas, 19, redheaded daughter of an Australian aspirin maker. Violinist Menuhin proposed to Miss Nicholas by long-distance telephone (Holland to Melbourne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

President J. B. George of State Teachers College Hattiesburg, Miss., may occasionally run a practiced eye along the floors of the college halls. If he does, it is caused by force of habit that has lingered more than 20 years. In 1915 Freshman J. B. George modestly started his State Teachers College career in flurries of dust and dirt. He swept campus halls, dug up campus stumps, and hoped for nothing more from the college than a diploma thoroughly earned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campus Laborer | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

Police declared that only Satterlee was first arrested, but Miss Ayer demanded that she too be taken along on the grounds that she was steering the bicycle and furnishing half the power. The boat race continued and the two offenders faced Judge Arthur P. Stone of the East Cambridge district court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT MAN AND LADY FRIEND ARRESTED RIDING IN TANDEM | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

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