Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bathing suits, prizes we're awarded. Miss Illinois, a middle-sized lightweight blonde whose proper name is Lois Eleanor Delander, was judged on points to be the prize-winning Miss America 1927. Another prize-winner was Miss Frieda Louise ("New York") Mierse, 15 years old, who was judged to possess the beauty most suitable to an evening dress. Run-ner-up to "Miss America" was Miss Mozelle ("Dallas") Ransome, a small-sized bantamweight brunette. After winning the blue ribbon, Miss America, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, was asked what she would now do with herself. She said: "I am happy...
Touts, jockeys, trainers with the universal sentimentality of sporting characters, enjoy the supposition that race horses possess retentive memories. They would prefer to suppose that Dice, as he watched blood oozing out of his nostrils, preserved in his mind a blurred panorama of fields and stables, race tracks and boxcars. Outlined still in the confusion of the past would be the five spring afternoons of his five races; victories all, in which he won $43,000 for owners who had bought him for less than a quarter of that amount, valued him at more than twice that amount. There would...
...More than $5,000,000 of the fund to be raised will be used to endow professorships, so that Mr. Holt can carry out his plan to assemble at Rollins a group of great teachers who have the rare gift of teaching and who possess the nobility of character to inspire youth...
Every knight of St. John swears to "protect women, the orphans, and the weak," and must possess a name untouched by scandal. Last week, in Berlin, there was inaugurated as Grand Master of the Order of St. John a gentleman whose virtue is unsmirched, Prince Oscar Charles Gustav-Adolf von Hohenzollern, 38, fifth son of onetime King and Emperor Wilhelm...
...storekeeper." He has a fit of epilepsy: "Fancy sharing your bed with a man who is in the habit of turning into a corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia. Fed it to my little pet rabbit. . . . Buried my little pet rabbit...