Word: missing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Post-Dispatch, and by pretty Ruth Sheldon in the Saturday Evening Post. Mr. Guffey told the Senate he was "sure" Childs had "received other compensation for sending that story out than that which he receives from his regular employer," added that the same was "no doubt" true of Miss Sheldon. For these remarks Senator Guffey could not be sued, because of Congressional immunity for remarks on the floor. But seven days later Newshawk Childs sued Guffey for $100,000 slander, charging that the Senator had made similar statements "in the presence of others...
...MISS RAVENEL'S CONVERSION-J. W. De Forest-Harper...
...best realistic portraits of a young American girl, the slyest commentary on the difference in romantic Southern and Northern ways of doing the same thing, it was also one of the greatest failures in U. S. publishing. The book went out of print; the blonde and charming Miss Ravenel was forgotten, along with her dashing but dishonest Colonel Carter; their creator, John William De Forest of New Haven, who died in 1906, became a footnote in college textbooks, someone greatly admired only by William Dean Howells...
...Story. Miss Lillie Ravenel was a rebel. At 19 she was tall, slender, graceful, blushed easily and had a way of looking at a young man with her blue eyes so lively and intent that each thought she was especially interested in himself. And, says De Forest, this "was frequently not altogether a mistake." Miss Ravenel was born in New Orleans, loved it, admired it, complained that she was lonely as a mouse in a trap in the New Boston House in New England, whither her father carried her when Louisiana seceded. New Englanders, she said, were right poky...
...Patricia Morgan, onetime Manhattan model and proprietor of a "charm" school, offered weddings similarly packaged. Her "Wedding Home" was aimed at business girls who, without church or family background, "have the same yearning as society belles to wear a bridal veil and are just as much entitled to." Miss Morgan priced her nuptials on a sliding scale, beginning with a curt ceremony in street clothes for $10. For $75, she offered a hall, flowers, music, minister or magistrate, bride's trousseau and bouquet, six prop bridesmaids (gowned), a flower girl, announcements, a photograph of the whole business. Miss Morgan...