Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metal Work: Miss Geek...
...Salisbury, Md. is seventyish Spinster Mary H. Parsons who was left a substantial estate by her father, Levin Parsons, and who spends her time with one eye on her knitting, the other on stock market reports. Owning a row of brick tenements, farm lands, and a batch of securities. Miss Parsons insists on living in one half of a frame duplex house without electricity or bathtub, wears cotton hose and gingham dresses, likes to haggle with grocers over not quite fresh foods. As kindly as she is money-conscious, she has been known to spend several hundred dollars for kneeling...
Last week Miss Parsons pulled the biggest coup of her career. Bidding against four Baltimore and Philadelphia investment banking houses for a $30,000 issue of by-pass bonds offered by Salisbury. Miss Parsons submitted the lowest bid ($30,010 at interest of 2½%), walked off with the bonds to the genteel embarrassment of her competitors...
Messrs. Tone and Tracy are strong champions of the one woman man theory, and Miss George, as a nurse, is the object of Mr. Tracy's affections until the latter is reported killed where-upon she nurses Mr. Tone to health and on the rebound promises to marry him. Inopportunely Mr. Tracy reappears but knowing the respect Mr. Tone has for him refuses to cut in on his pal's happiness...
After the war, Miss George marries Mr. Tone but does not realize in what manner he makes his money until told by Mr. Tracy, who thinks she is responsible for his friend's underworld life. Thereupon Miss George has her husband arrested and makes him take the rap for his own good, living under Mr. Tracy's protection in the meantime. Mr. Tone wants to get back to his wife, however, and escapes from prison. When he wants Miss George to dodge cops with him, Mr. Tracy steps in, tells his friend he, too, loves Miss George, and refuses...