Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Eleanor Crosbee, name-checker and soup-server, remarked that the new ruling, though possibly it cut down the number of applications for dates, didn't really affect her much personally. "Why should I care," she cooed, "there are enough passes being made around here and then some. I'm no prig...
From her vantage point behind the meat and scraps Miss Mary O'Brien cast a motherly eye around the dining hall before answering. "Let them have their fun," she declared. "I don't care. My interests lie elsewhere...
Most of the white spectators jamming the small federal courtroom in Jackson, Miss, had a real good time laughing and winking. Sometimes they shouted: "Tell 'em, Bilbo!" "The Man" himself was in high humor-despite the fact that he faced possible loss of his Senate seat...
...taxi driver admitted that they had each received $25 for warning fellow Negroes away from the polls. A white Catholic priest, who had asked polling officials why his parishioners were not allowed to vote, had received the answer: "No Negroes are going to vote in Pass Christian [Miss.] unless they paint their faces white...
Citing Committee Chairman John Rankin's alleged "star chamber" methods in his November examination of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, Miss Slade urged students to disseminate information about the Committee's activities to friends and parents and to make their own views known to members of Congress...