Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been paid for by Comedian Vic Oliver, who had offered her a job in U. S. vaudeville, plus a wedding ring. Instantly Father Churchill dispatched Son Randolph on the Queen Mary to fetch Daughter Sarah back. Meanwhile inquiring Manhattan newshawks found Vic Oliver in a Broadway Hotel. Spouted he: "Miss Churchill is just another girl to me. ... I know 25,240 girls all over the world. . . . I need a job myself...
...over 4,000 years, and whose living breath had been blowing upon me across broad seas, whose finger had been beckoning me." The boa constrictor did not enter her life until she had returned to New York. The pet of a Hindu princess, it took a strange liking to Miss Crocker, coiled itself around her, stayed with her all the time. She gave an elaborate dinner for it. The dinner was a great success, except that the newspapers "picked it up and made the story into that of an orgy...
...little self, the much advertised "Ann Marsters' Primer for Harvard Students" began its run yesterday in the Sunday Advertiser. Replete with sage advice on the advisability of passing the swimming test, and recommending those who wish to be different not to steal the Memorial Hall clapper, Miss Marster's article succeeded in filling a rather dull page with type, and little more. A large photograph of our men "studying" showed two reading magazines, and two absorbing learning from empty loose-leaf notebook covers. And the circulation of the Advertiser in Harvard Square remained about the same...
...Miss Margaret Mitchell's thousand-page novel of Civil War and Reconstruction days in the South is an interesting and entertaining accomplishment. The reviewer cannot call it the best novel yet written on the Civil War because he remembers. "The Red Badge of Courage" and Evelyn Scott's "The Wave," "Gone With the Wind" is not a "deep" book; its value lies in the scope of its narrative and in its extraordinary fine re-creation of an atmosphere. Despite that it is set in times of great historic significance it is a book of persons rather than of events...
...rebellion shaken land. Half-Irish and half-French, utter realist yet the servant of a self-deceiving love, Scarlett O'Hara is unique in American fiction. Other characters are good and bad; the minor figures are not sketched with that conciseness and surety which mark the mature artist. Miss Mitchell needs space to develop either a character or a bit of action, and she very wisely, I think, does not hesitate to take that space where it is important. Rhelt Butler is one on whom she lavishes enough care to make him live. A cynicvillain who is undeluded...