Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First it was a picture of 'Miss Hush,' and now 'The Walking Man.' How about a photograph of the horse destined to win the Kentucky Derby this year...
...Wingo of Memphis, Tenn. put a headlight on his electric mower and began cutting his lawn at night. This made him miss his favorite radio programs. So he equipped the mower with a radio...
...Better than Churchill." Everywhere Zezette and Philip went, Parisians cried: "Vive la Princesse!" During the races at Longchamp, people stood with their backs to the track so as not to miss a glimpse of the royal couple. Along the boulevards the crowds were solid: young men with girls on their shoulders, midinettes who buzzed about Elizabeth's elegantly homely clothes, and elderly gentlemen with Legion of Honor rosettes in their frayed buttonholes, silver-topped canes swinging gently in their gloved hands. People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman...
Fanny Cohen, 4O-year-old artist, tearfully commented: "She is such a dear old lady, and becomes dearer every year. How I would like to lunch with her! When I met her I would like her to say, 'Hello, Miss Cohen,' and I would say, 'Hello, Queen.' " Said a Negro waiter from Dutch Guiana: "People come and go, but it will seem strange without Wilhelmina...
Einaudi's rent-free residence for his seven-year term will be the Quirinal Palace, former home of Italy's kings. It is a huge, drafty place, full of heavy furniture, and President Einaudi feared that he would miss the simplicity of his snug little villa on the Via Tuscolana, with its book-lined walls and plain desk. He made a visit of inspection last week. Limping through the high-ceilinged rooms (his leg was injured in 1926 when, after a U.S. lecture tour, he tried to swing aboard a moving Turin streetcar, American fashion), he issued...