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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprisingly enough, there were empty seats last night, but tonight there is another concert. If you like good music, if you are at all interested in the violin, and if you want to hear one of the finest musicians in the world, don't miss...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Complaints of "fire trap" conditions at the Radcliffe dormitory at 20 Walker St., were yesterday laid before the Annex Council by Betty K. Heaton '51. Miss Heaton on behalf of 28 residents, asked the Council to intervene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Council Takes Up Plea Of 20 Walker St. Residents | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...ropes, Miss Heaton pointed out, are attached to small, high windows, and in some cases one is assigned to three students. She added that the twisting rear stairway of the house is poorly lighted and has no fire doors at all, and that the basement also lacks flame-blocking doorways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Council Takes Up Plea Of 20 Walker St. Residents | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...almost stolen by the clowning of Leonide Massinc, who could almost be called the Grand Old Man of the Dance, if he would allow the "Old." But he does not steal the show because new, red-headed Moira Shearer does. Looking as fetching as Becky Thatcher grown up, Miss Shearer is also a surprisingly capable actress in this, her first film. She plays the young ballerina and dances the lead in "The Red Shoes" ballet, based on the Hans Anderson tale, and carries off both with more talent and wile than has been seen in a long while...

Author: By George A. Leiper., | Title: The Red Shoes | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

...expected to film a ballet entirely from fifth-row-center but neither should it show the movements of the dance as if they were viewed from an aerial kaleidoscope. The whole effect (except for the final bit at the church) is only that--effect. One gets the idea of Miss Shearer leaping through seas of rippling cellophane and grotesque faces, but there are hardly 20 continuous minutes of sustained dancing. Miss Shearer is lost and with her the dance...

Author: By George A. Leiper., | Title: The Red Shoes | 11/23/1948 | See Source »

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