Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Susan Myrick, Associate Editor and Farm Editor of the Macon Telegraph, probably the only woman in the nation to serve in this capacity, swings more influence with Middle Georgia farms on soil conservation than anyone [and] is regarded as the best informed and most helpful person in the area on agricultural problems...
Known as the "Blue Lupine Queen," Miss Myrick can challenge the "Kudzu Kid" any time. Blue Lupine, incidentally, is a nitrogen-bearing plant used extensively for winter cover crops in the South ... It stops erosion, and adds millions to the income of Georgia farmers...
...making her first movie in eight years (Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais), made a standard Garbo exit. Dressed in black and hidden under a large mushroom-shaped hat, she slipped aboard the Queen Elizabeth, ahead of the crowds, eluded reporters by having the stewardess tell them that Miss Garbo had not yet come aboard...
...Miss Liberty (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by the Messrs. Berlin & Sherwood and Moss Hart) was Broadway's most ballyhooed hot-weather opening since Composer Berlin's bang-up This Is the Army in 1942. This is not the army. This is not even a very exciting summer event. Miss Liberty has much that is sound Broadway about it, but little of Berlin at his best, and nothing of Sherwood...
...pleasure over Pursuit's hot Paris romance; 2) determined esthetes who gleefully bang their teacups whenever the sharp, wry tongue of their cult leader, Evelyn Waugh, wags through a new writer's prose. Group One will shiver in dry-eyed disappointment over Love in a Cold Climate, Miss Mitford's hot-weather novel for 1949. Group Two will fare better-if they can take their Waugh watered...