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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inasmuch as there are those of us in Hollywood, Miss Bacall among them, who would rather make Current & Choice than win an Academy Award or make Men of Distinction, won't you please include her in the cast of Key Largo in Current & Choice just once, as she is my wife and I have to live with her. Miss Bacall is extremely tired of being labeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...easy, says Miss Karasz, to cross the no man's land that separates "pure" art (the kind that comes in frames) from applied art. "You must have a sponsor, just as in the Renaissance, only nowadays it's a company instead of a duke. I'm lucky to have a manufacturer [Katzenbach & Warren, Inc.] who lets me design pretty much as I please. And I'm not dependent on inspiration. I'm dependent on what I wish to do. This does not mean I work without inspiration-I just don't wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ilonka in No Man's Land | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Earlier in the evening, Miss Mead had discussed sex standards from a cultural viewpoint, with especial emphasis on the family arrangement. She said that in this country "we still have a basically puritanic attitude to sex, using it as an end to marriage, but never for its own sake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fletcher Sees Religious Solution to Sex Problem | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

...Figured by total number of students, Radcliffe has a larger donor percentage than Harvard," Miss Heaton added, 186 had volunteered from the College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Blood Donors Relieve PBH Quota Dilemma with 41-Pint Pledge | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

...character with Mr. Sherwood's best comedy lines and all of his thoughtful ones, Polly Rowles, the Roman wife, acted with such vagueness and ennui that many of her lines just seemed to curl up on the stage floor and die, lacking vitality to cross over the footlights. Miss Rowles in an accomplished actress--but seems in need for better direction in this part...

Author: By George A. Leiper., | Title: The Road to Rome | 11/6/1948 | See Source »

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