Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Students were most likely to be dishonest in their school work, which led Miss Omwake to observe that the traditional school curriculum, stressing competition for marks, "may promote dishonesty." Of her students, 33% said they would be tempted to cheat in an examination if they could get away with it; 50% would be tempted if most of their classmates cheated; 79% had actually cheated in an examination at least once...
...Corno di Bassetto (basset horn, a wind instrument). That he was also an amateur composer was revealed last week when Arthur Pforzheimer, Manhattan rare book dealer, exhibited manuscripts of two sweet Shaw songs, / Lack Thy Kisses and Here She Comes, written in 1884 to verses by a friend, a Miss Radford. > Last fortnight the Basle, Switzerland radio station broadcast a gay little opera buffa, La Contadina, by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, second-rank 18th-Century composer. Mislaid in the Brussels Royal Library, the score had gone unperformed for two centuries. A scholar found it last year...
...People (JellO, Ice Cream Products), which specializes in airing human curios, dug up for the occasion a fluttery visiting Englishwoman, Mrs. Lucille Baring Wilson, introduced as "Miss Lucille Baring of London, England." Said Miss Baring: "I remember when Elizabeth was a little girl ... she had all sorts of pets-dogs, birds, turtles and two little black pigs named Emma and Lucifer...
...Miss Hutchinson's School in Memphis, where Mrs. Nell Halliburton still teaches practical applied psychology, the only boy ever admitted as a pupil was Mrs. Halliburton's son Richard. Dick Halliburton grew up and went to Princeton, where he was the shy, retiring editor of a photography magazine. In 1921, the year he graduated, he climbed the Matterhorn, surveyed the world and set out on a career of self-conscious adventuring that few men would have had the energy or ambition to undertake...
...Manhattan, Miss Frances Thorpe parked her car at the door of her apartment building, told the doorman, "I'll be right down," went up to her tenth-floor apartment. Few minutes later she plunged to her death in the courtyard...