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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charlotte, N.C., heading South, was a team composed of comely Miss Ila Sircar, associate general secretary of the Student Christian Movement in India; Dr. P. C. Hsu, University of Shanghai professor; Dr. Gonzalo Baez Camargo, Mexican Methodist leader. In Detroit, heading West, were Miss Minnie Soga, Bantu social worker in South Africa; Dr. Rajah Bhushinam Manikam, Lutheran secretary of India's National Christian Council; Dr. Hachiro Yuasa, "Christian Pacifist," onetime president of Japan's Doshisha University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: After Madras | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...make grim preparations. While the two freshmen stripped to the waist, companions found a pair of French fencing épées, pulled off the protective tips, sterilized the points. Business: a duel. Challenger: Freshman List. Prize: the favor of a blonde Blue Ridge co-ed known as "Little Miss America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blue Ridge Duel | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Miss Sothern explained that each stripper had a particular style, and that there was a definite art to the game. "After all," she added, "if no skill were required, any one could get up and disrobe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real Art Required to Be Burlesque Stripper, Georgia Sothern Explains | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

There is little jealousy, explained Miss Sothern, between the professional women in the business. Although, a few years ago, there was cut threat competition among the various strippers, today that has almost abated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real Art Required to Be Burlesque Stripper, Georgia Sothern Explains | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Doing the rounds between New York Philadelphia, Boston, Buffalo, and Miami keeps her on the go all year except during the summer, Miss Southern said. She continued, "Even though I enjoy playing New York the most, I find Boston audiences the most appreciative. I think the reason for it is that in all the other cities, the better clubs have a strip act included in the floor show. I don't remember having seen anything like that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real Art Required to Be Burlesque Stripper, Georgia Sothern Explains | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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