Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced in its November issue that the informal dance of October 18 was a whopping success, especially since there were too many male guests present. The editors of "Sa-Nu" urged their readers, "Let's all go to the next dance on November 15th and make up that surplus." Miss Elesnor Kitchin, Social Director, remarked that the surplus--mostly Harvard students--was taken care of in short order. "The girls like Harvard men best of all," she said...
...Just because this is a school of physical education, a lot of people think the girls are a bit rough," Miss Kitchin continued. "That isn't true at all; they learn how to be social hostesses." She noted that student government leaders had joined the faculty a few years ago in a campaign to make the girls quit walking around Cambridge in slacks and dungarees. After a stern battle, the rank and file agreed to wear these epitomes only on the upper floors of the dormitories. Miss Kitchin said in a firm voice: "Any girls in slacks or dungarees...
...Paris, a panel of right-minded judges carefully examined the evidence, ultimately came to the conclusion that dark-haired, dark-eyed model Yvonne Viseux, 20, who used to be Miss Côte d'Azur, rated the title, Miss France...
Most gawked-at conferee: 21-year-old Barbara Jo Walker, a Memphis Sunday-school teacher who also happens to be Miss America of 1947. Fellow delegates hung on her every good word. Typical was a freckle-faced Kentuckian who fell into step beside her as she was leaving one of the meetings. "You're so important and all," he said, "I was wondering what you think is the big job we boys and girls have to face up to." Replied beautiful Barbara Jo: "I think we've got to find a way to lasting peace...
...John Quincy Adams, who died at 80 as a Congressman, had an eye for the female form. (Excerpts from his diary: Miss Frazier "has what is called a genteel shape"; Miss Cazneau "has nothing in her person to recommend her but a very good shape. . . . Mrs. Jones . . . exhibited an arm . . . which might fire the imagination of a sensual voluptuary...