Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, oldtime Actress Edna Wallace Hopper appeared in Federal District Court to prosecute a suit for $230,000 in back salary and damages against various cosmetic manufacturers whose products she has publicized. When Judge Patrick Stone insisted that she give her age, Miss Hopper-looking except at close range not a day over 35-wrote a figure on a piece of paper, handed it to him. The judge's eyebrows shot toward the ceiling. The figure (if it agreed with the date of her birth in Who's Who in the Theater...
Abandoning intercollegiate competition for a mid-week pick-up game, the Crimson Postoffice team last night romped over the Katie Gibbs kissers in a colorful match that was called at four o'clock this morning owing to daylight. "We gambolled and lost," Miss Lydia Lipps, RFD, told the CRIMSON later...
...before the code was issued, the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, which was represented on a committee of 15 groups collaborating in the study, had adopted a resolution in convention withholding approval of the 15 foot-candle minimum until "scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee, Miss Alice Barrows, the U. S. Office of Education's specialist in school building problems, refused to vote for the report, declared the matter should be studied by disinterested scientists. University of Minnesota's Miles A. Tinker pooh-poohed the tests cited in the report, said his own studies...
...case oj Lucy D. Slowe: While Miss Slowe, dean of women for 15 years, lay on her deathbed, President Johnson sent a message announcing his intention to appoint her successor within 24 hours...
Having discovered the sparking skates of Sonja Henje, Twentieth-Century Fox has lately been putting the old-fashioned musical on ice-- something which, in more than one sense, is a splendid idea. Unfortunately for "Happy Landing," Miss Henie's latest vehicle, the story calls for too much of the old musical formula: broken hearts, romantic orchestra leaders, and wisecracking business managers. Unfortunately for Miss Henie, she has again been paired with Don Ameche, who should be pulling his darling little black mustache and muttering "foiled again"; and this time Ethel Merman and her fire-alarm voice have been thrown...