Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intricacies of the trade tempt Peter to make extravagant offers. On occasion he'll promise a pair of boots, free, to the visitor who can successfully pare a long bootlace from a patch of leather, or drive ten wooden pages into a boot sale without a miss. The latter offer was taken up by a Harvard skier who failed on his first try. The boot hungry student bought a wooden block, some pegs, and a mallet and practiced for a week. His return bout resulted in a near miss and a sigh relief from the Limmer family...
...poems suffer from the same lack of direction. In verse, of course, a poet can succeed by scratching just one image into your mind. But Signature's poets, possibly excepting Miss Benet, don't even do that. They simply fail to arouse, or to "make the reader care...
...story is about a music-hating man (Douglas) married to a would-be concert soprano (Celeste Holm). All is dandy until she begins a singing career. In Douglas' hour of agony, who should happen along but a famous opera star (Miss Darnell) who discovers that he has a great voice, and persuades him to regain control of the family by singing in concerts and opera himself...
Working for the American-founded "Die Neve Zeitung" she first dealt with political problems. In 1947, when the French occupation zone in Germany was behind a "silken curtain" and practically inaccessible to correspondents, Miss Brucher some how procured a passport from American authorities and muckraked the French administration there for her newspaper...
Quick to pick up new ideas, Miss Brucher already sees in America's League of Women Voters a political weapon that might be used in Germany. In legislative halls, she has plugged for equal rights for the sexes and pushed through a bill giving equality in rights and pay to women office holders...