Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FIRST REPORT OF THIS RESEARCH, PUBLISHED IN THE JUNE 1937 ISSUE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE NAMED FOUR AUTHORS: DR. CHARLES A. TOMPKINS, MISS GRACE WASHBURN, DR. MATHEW WINTERS AND MYSELF. THE CONTRIBUTION OF EACH WAS INVALUABLE AND VITAL TO THE WHOLE UNDERTAKING; SINCE SCIENCE IS ADVANCED ONLY BY THE SEEKING OF THE TRUTH THIS ERROR SEEMS GRIEVOUS TO ME. IT IS UNFAIR TO THE CO-AUTHORS IN THAT IT DOES NOT GIVE THEM DUE CREDIT AND PLACES ME IN A POSITION WHERE I MAY BE MISJUDGED. AS A TEN-YEAR TIME READER...
...Chief Nelson Eddy are rivals for Jeanette MacDonald, pastel-tinted proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Eddy's dimples, wavy hair and roly-poly pinkness satisfy the popular idea of a rakehell bad man about as well as they did that of a West Point football player in Rosalie. Miss MacDonald's concession to her role is a rolling walk and belligerent way of batting her eyelashes. Best song: Soldiers of Fortune...
...years ago, Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn imported pretty Sigrid Gurie from Norway, secluded her in a Hollywood Hills bungalow till she learned English, then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...
...those stories. A fan magazine was offering a dance scholarship to the prettiest face in the country. Judy Parks, her Kappa roommate, sent in Marjorie's picture. That was practically all there was to it. Zanuck's boys were around soon after winner Miss Weaver arrived in New York to claim the prize. So you'll see her dancing in Sally, Irene, and Mary, Marjorie playing "Mary," Fred Allen doing the comedy...
Sorrowfully refusing an invitation to the Leverett House Dance tonight, Miss Wing said, "I'm going to a spaghetti dinner or something. Good bye, now; I've gotta...