Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Elizabeth Olney, hockey instructor, did not allow herself to be dazzled by the foreigners' play. "See that rollin," she commented, "the way he threw that ball in isn't legal in this country...
...Hortons were a team at this summer's Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam (Miss Mac was one of the few women speakers there) and the trip helped decide her to go into religious work, assisting her husband...
Wellesley girls at morning chapel last week sat in unhappy silence when the chairman of the trustees announced Miss Mac's decision to resign-effective whenever a suitable replacement could be lined up for the job. Said Miss Mac in her letter of resignation: "I recommend [the presidency] with unrestrained enthusiasm . . . as stimulating and important as any position I know...
...years since her graduation from Vassar, Miss Mac has known quite a few jobs, ranging from a teacher in grade school to wartime director of the WAVES (TIME, March 12, 1945). At 36, she was Wellesley's second youngest president. University presidents, resigned to each other's ponderous speeches, always perk up when trigger-quick Mildred McAfee Horton gets up to speak. Her best-known dictum justifying girls' schools against the advocates of coeducation: "It is easier to be scholarly when the boy friend is an event rather than a habit...
...Miss Greer wears an extensive and luscious assortment of jigsawed gowns, and uses her eyes, mouth and bosom so effectively that it soon becomes clear that she was born too late. Back in the disreputable old days of silent movies, when sex was sex, she would have become a major star very fast. Today, she seems as anachronistic as a Virginia royalist. But it is a pleasure to watch her work...