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Word: misses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Driscoll urged police to arrest teenage offenders, but her main attack was against the taverns serving them. She declared that police would no longer accept excuses from propriotors who say they were hoodwinked by minors with false birth certificates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Age Fakers Get Patrol Ride From Tavern to Station | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...matter how the youngsters got the liquor, they still got it," Commissioner Frank Brier added. He confirmed Miss Driscoll's statement that "It's about time we got tough with these cafes that serve liquor to minors, regardless of what the circumstances might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Age Fakers Get Patrol Ride From Tavern to Station | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

This year's onlookers will miss the police prowl cars that carried the loudspeakers last year, but they should receive more complete coverage by the Key's new system. The funning commentary planned for this spring will surpass last season's intermittent announcements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Key To Broadcast 3 Crew Races | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...theater fare. This is quite an accomplishment, but the success is not all Mr. Jeffers', nor did he intend it so. The "free adaptation" was written expressly for Judith Anderson. Mr. Jeffers has done double service to the theater in giving it an actable version of "Medea" and giving Miss Anderson an opportunity to make theater history...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...June Walker is bouncy and very funny. The kind of woman who was once called "ente as a bug's car," she is now pudgy and painted, given to wearing fluffy mules around the house because of "foot trouble" but who nevertheless takes samba lessons. Most of the time Miss Walker is on stage she is "simply in stitches" at her husband's jokes (in many ways she is wiser than Miss Wood's fretful female), and the audience is almost that way because of Miss Walker...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

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