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Word: miss (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When there were some visitors on the set he would say, 'Now Miss MacDonald, try to act for a change. Ach, but you are a dumb girl!' When I asked why he had engaged me for the role if I were so dumb he would say, 'Ach, I was dumb too, that day.' ... I wanted to see a finished print of The Love Parade. Every time I told Lubitsch he would tell me, 'Don't be so anxious, I've cut most of your scenes out. There's plenty of you lying around on the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

...such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed of such familiar elements as one sister's sacrifices for another who repays her by stealing her clothes and her fiance's affections, it is effective because it gives the well-made, impetuous Miss Bow a part that suits her. Between sentimental passages the routine of a great U. S. department store is lustily though clumsily satirized. Best shot: Store-Owner Ginsberg addressing his employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Nancy Susan Reynolds, 18, daughter of late Tobaccoman R. J. Reynolds; and Henry Walker Bagley, 24, of Atlanta and Manhattan; at Winston Salem, N. C. Fortnight ago her brother Zachary Smith Reynolds, 17, married Miss Anne L. Cannon, 19, at York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Married. Frank Arthur Daniels, son of Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels; and a Miss Ruth Aunspaugh; at Raleigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Married. John Whitten Davis Jr.,* of Brooklyn, onetime Princeton football & water polo captain (1927); and a Miss Gladys Snell; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

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