Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parlor of a narrow Victorian house on Cass Street (now North Wabash Avenue). Tiny Editor Monroe sat hidden behind a rolltop desk, bobbing up into view every time the door opened, sinking down again to lose herself in the pile of manuscripts. By 1936, when she died at 75, Miss Monroe had racked up an astonishing record of Poetry firsts: she was the first to publish T. S. Eliot's Prufrock, a satire on the effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer...
...story is set in the early 1760s. Miss Goddard, an English girl, is accused -unjustly, of course-of crime, and is sentenced to 14 years' slavery in North America. The highest bid comes from Captain Cooper of the Virginia militia. A scoundrel, Howard DaSilva, tricks Cooper out of his new property. The picture thereupon settles down in and near Fort Pitt, which every schoolboy will presumably recognize as early Pittsburgh...
...Indians. Scoundrel DaSilva wants war with the Indians and a weak frontier (he is a fur trader). Patriot Cooper wants peace and a strong frontier (he is the stuff that the unborn U.S. is to be made of). DaSilva gets his war and it remains for Cooper to rescue Miss Goddard from the aborigines (Boris Karloff & friends...
...extra glow that the audience carries away from this amusing, if non-aisle-rolling comedy. can be laid directly at the feet of Miss June Lockhart. She creates a young lady that every male member of the audience would like to meet even if she did not do a genicel strip-tease under the precarious shield of a large beach robe. Miss Lockhart is a compoient actress, but there is a persistent impression that her success resis largely on the suspicion that she herself in just the kind of young lady she portrays...
...Pasha had reasons for not being rescued, or at least for not being returned to Europe, Miss Manning implies; he had deserted a common-law wife and several foster children in Germany. That did not deter Stanley's expedition. It left Zanzibar on steamers for the mouth of the Congo in February 1887. The party consisted of eight white officers, some 600 Zanzibaris, 60 armed Soudanese, four Syrians, 13 Somalis. During part of the journey it carried a wealthy slave raider named Tippu-Tib, "gorgeously clad in silks, a jeweled turban and jeweled kris," with his 96 relatives. Among...