Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friends held him, the attorney complained, Raft gave him a shellacking, and then kneed him. So now Raiden sued for $300,000. Commented Raft: "That's pretty good, but I don't know what it's all about." Neither did she, said red-haired Miss Doss...
...week after tax and pension deductions); the unpopularity of walking as a recreation; the way U.S. children sing familiar nursery rhymes, e.g., London Bridge Is Falling Down, Sing a Song of Sixpence, to unfamiliar tunes. A five-year-old in her class is a self-appointed interpreter ("Miss Eades means banana...
...sent to the U.S. for health and diet charts and hung them in the school hall. After studying them for a day and finding only milk and cocoa on the beverage list, the Southfield Road children came to her and said: "But please, miss, where...
...tales like Three Wise Guys, the story of the Nativity retold in Runyon's "historical present," by a modern Grimm who talked out of the corner of his mouth. With Howard Lindsay, he turned out a play, A Slight Case of Murder. A score of his stories (Little Miss Marker, etc.) became movies; a few, like The Big Street (1942) he produced himself. Hearst christened The Brighter Side, the daily column where Runyon's endearing ignoramuses, Joe and Ethel Turp, were born...
...have been tricked and ruined -so have I. And so has every man and "woman, I say. . . . We have all of us sold our spirits into death, we are all of us the sick parts of a sick thing. . . . -How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skilful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands...