Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of what a New York Times headline described as a POLYGLOT LOAD which reached Manhattan on the Holland-America liner Pennland last week was a certain Miss Joy Allen Duncan, 19, tall, hazel-eyed Virginian, chatty as a debutante about one of the most harrowing civilian experiences the war at sea has turned...
...said Miss Duncan, she and a man named Douglas Miller were lunching together (Miss Duncan was traveling with her aunt) aboard the Norwegian freighter Ronda, standing up through the North Sea en route from Antwerp to Hoboken. Suddenly the ship "shuddered awfully." Glass tinkled, Miss Duncan remembered, and vases broke...
...years ago Hurwitz sold University Tutors to Mollie Freeman, who described herself as a "business woman who knew nothing about tutoring." Although Hurwitz turned over the ownership of University Tutors to Miss Free man the two schools continued to cooperate closely with one another...
...Rose in the book is a real person: Rose Lucy Renee Anne d'Aiguy, nine years old a neighbor and friend of Gertrude Stein at Bilignin, a village near Belley, where Miss Stein has her country house. Gertrude "likes Rose's way of thinking because Rose helped her remember "all the things that troubled my own child hood." Gertrude read most of the book to Rose as it was being written, translating into French as she went along, and Rose suggested numerous incidents. Says Gertrude" "Rose likes her book; she likes her book very much." Gertrude also says...
Since the death of his mother, and father when he was young, Baker has been living with his aunt, Miss Mary Baker, who, though an American citizen, has done much travelling abroad. Because of this, Baker received most of his formal education in France and feels an equal loyalty for both France and the United States...