Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clarksdale, Miss, and elsewhere in the Mississippi Delta, however, WPA projects were suspended as police lent a hand in the familiar practice of benevolently shanghaiing the jobless to the cotton fields in picking time. Those who refused to go were arrested for vagrancy...
...Stammers the afternoon before went completely to pieces and she won only four points in the first four games. She got the next two games but that was merely the brave gesture of a player who knew she was beaten. The crowd, which had been rooting for Miss Marble, showed its understanding by rooting for the old champion. A few minutes later the match was over and it cheered...
...entirely accurate. Her tennis career began when she was 14. That year, her eldest brother Dan gave her a racquet and suggested that instead of playing baseball and basketball with boys, she learn a game which might enable her to travel around the world in style like Miss Jacobs and Mrs. Moody. Alice Marble took his advice, improved so rapidly that she won the California State Girls' title at 16. This brought her to the attention of Eleanor Tennant who, third ranking U. S. player in 1920, had since become Hollywood's best known coach. When...
...Atlantic City last week for the 10th Annual Beauty Pageant of the Showmen's Variety Jubilee. No sooner had the 48 girls arrived than Mayor Charles D. White whisked them off to the Steel Pier, launched them on a five-day program designed to promote Atlantic City, produce Miss America...
...which the contestants were separately judged on qualifications including poise and charm, talent, personality, figure. First day the girls reported for duty at 9:30 a.m., postured in bathing suits for photographers, paraded, sang, danced, tootled saxophones in the first "talent" competitions. All gaped at acrobatic Evelyn Townley ("Miss Buckeye Lake, Ohio"), as she leaned over backwards, snatched a handkerchief from the floor with her teeth. They were still going at ir 11:30 p.m. when the American Beauty Ball started...