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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thereupon pompous Wesley Dexter offered himself richly in marriage, and Missie dared not disappoint her grandmother by marrying the florist's son instead. Wesley proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Selfless Life | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago Civic Opera's L'Amore del Tre Re. Basso Virgilio Lazzari as the blind Archibaldo had strangled her, thrown her body easily* over his shoulder, started for the wings. But, once deposited there, she fainted. Her back had been badly sprained. Yet rather than disappoint friends she went to a tea given in her honor, chatted and smiled for two hours before she went home for doctor's treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Valedictory | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...common enemy, who has just dispersed his forces at Kansas City, is waiting ?oh, how eagerly!?for the old-fashioned friction that has unfortunately characterized so many Democratic conventions in the past. . . . The G. 0. P. is depending upon us to 'spill the beans' here. Let us disappoint them. I ask for speed on this convention, not to becloud good judgment but to spell efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Platform | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...weekly wisps of wisdom to its readers. Knowing there was only one Joe, unless you count Joe, Jr.--but that is another story--I went post haste to the imposing edifice on Plympton Street to investigate. A heated colloquy with the genial President followed. I finally agreed not to disappoint my public, in return for which the CRIMSON gave me a subscription at the special rate of five dollars, a press ticket to the University Theatre, and a promise to inform its readers each week whether or not I was to be at home on Sunday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RICH BRIBE LURES JOE FORECAST AGAIN INTO GLARE OF LIMELIGHT | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

Jockey McAtee did not disappoint. Crouched low, but calm, he brought Millwick across the finish line a winner. He was rewarded with booes, because Millwick was the only horse in the race. The other twelve entrants had been scratched (withdrawn) before the start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Walkover | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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