Word: miss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little town of Stuart, Fla., New York's ailing Mayor William O'Dwyer ended two months of speculation, rumors and denials by getting a license to marry Texas-born brunette Divorcee Elizabeth Sloan Simpson, 33, onetime model and more recently a department-store stylist. Miss Simpson chose a plain navy-blue suit for the ceremony this week. The couple planned to honeymoon aboard Industrial Engineer H. G. Matthews' yacht, Almar II, after a while head for Manhattan's Gracie Mansion, home of New York's mayors...
...made some changes," said Rodell, "but I refused to delete any of my criticisms of Frankfurter . . . Field said that Miss Kirchwey's personal relation with Justice Frankfurter is such that she cannot afford to publish such criticisms of him in her magazine...
Second prize of $10,000 went to Miss Laura Rott of Naperville, Ill. for her mint surprise cookies; third prize of $4,000 to Mrs. R. W. Sprague of San Marino, Calif, for her Carrie's Creole chocolate cake...
...spectacle bears to everyday life. Holding up the florid tradition of black-hearted villainy are George Sanders and Henry Wilcoxon. Mature is suitably curly-haired and big-muscled as Samson. For all her plumage, including a gown of 2,000 peacock feathers (which DeMille ordered retouched for more color), Miss Lamarr's slitherings suggest a small-town belle making like a femme fatale...
...thing was obviously missing from Sehwarz, and that was Santa Claus. The search led on to Filene's, where one was found seated on a throne, doling out green lollypops to frightened little children, some of whom had to be dragged up to him bodily. Santa had a new assistant this year, a young lady who called herself Miss Holly and who was dressed like a like a Filene doll called Holly Dolly, only she was big and blonde and the dolls small and brunette. I asked Miss Holly who Santa Claus really was and she said that...