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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Allyson has been dead for reels, and Mr. Kelly (D'Artagnan) accepts Richelieu's invitation to stay on in Paris, presumably for further skewering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Stepanchenko lives in the Donbas coal-mining town of Makeevka, works hard and wants to get married. When she wrote to three young men of her acquaintance one day, she had no idea the letters were going to turn up in black type in Komsomolskaya Pravda, but they did. Miss Stepanchenko had made the deplorable mistake of getting all three letters into the wrong envelopes. The recipients thought three was a crowd and exposed the flirtatious Galina. Moscow Correspondent Joseph Newman sent Komsomolskaya Pravda's story along to the New York Herald Tribune, which pubished it this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Not Like Texas | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...editors of Komsomolskaya Pravda were not amused. An investigation had been made of Miss Stepanchenko. Without doubt, she had been cultivating multiple boy friends in order to make a shrewd, calculated choice of a husband, just like any common bourgeoise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Not Like Texas | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...Siren of Slutsk. It reminded the editors of another, similar case: that of Galina Dubrovina, of the town of Slutsk in western Belorussia. Miss Dubrovina had actually kept a notebook with a special page entitled "My Fiancés." There she had scored nine young fellows under four headings: "Job-Salary-Year of Birth-Home Address...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Not Like Texas | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Another reserved-seat show is the fine English technicolor film, "The Red Shoes" which includes some of the longest ballet sequences ever shot. Finally, for the humorists, are "Miss Tatlock's Millions" as zany as it sounds and Danny Kaye's "A Song is Born"--all about jazz, with Kaye clowning as usual, and Virginia Mayo looking beautiful. Of course there's always the Old Howard...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Weekend Sidelights | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

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