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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Betty Groth of the Freshman Housing Office was even more enthusiastic. Taking a long range view of things, she offered the opinion that "they're much improved since the war; they used to be far more studious. Now they're always gentlemen, and what's more they always throw the best parties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marriage Wreaks Havoc Among University Secretaries as Local Scholars Take Note | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...crowded stage of Detroit's Music Hall, Margaret faced the nearly empty auditorium in a blue, off-shoulder gown and a mantle of apparent composure. The Music Digest Sunday Evening Hour tactfully announced its pleasure in presenting "Miss Margaret Truman, of Washington, D.C." No reference to her father was made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moment for Margaret | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Ingrid Bergman was another on Louis' list. His horrid word for her coifs: "vapid." Miss Bergman scarcely knew what to think. Simultaneously, the smart-chart Town & Country published a full-page, seven-picture spread of Bergman hairdos, held her tresses up to its readers as "a shining example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...translation of the Psalms is being published in the U.S. next week. Modern readers will miss the drums and tramplings of the King James version-but the simple, matter-of-fact English of Britain's witty, whodunit-writing Monsignor Ronald A. Knox (The Psalms, Sheed & Ward, $2) gives some of David's songs a sharp new applicability. Excerpt (Psalm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Princes, Take Warning! | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Sari Gabor Hilton, 26, "Miss Hungary" of 1936, and Conrad Nicholson Hilton, 59, hotel magnate: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Constance Francesca. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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