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Miss and Ada
Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.
`` To Be Left Behind '' was printed at the top in Miss Ada ; ;
`` I don't mean Miss Ada!!
The velvet smoking jackets, pearl-gray, wine, and blue, which Miss Ada had bought him hung brushed and unworn in the closet.
Miss Ada had been out back, in a straw hat, planting flowers.
In the living room, Miss Ada was standing by the window with a sheaf of lists in her hand.
Miss Ada was looking fine ; ;
Frowning, Miss Ada studied the list.
When they came to Mr. Jack's photograph, twenty by twelve inches in a curly silver frame, Miss Ada said, `` By rights I ought to leave that, seeing he won't take my clotheshorse ''.
`` At least you could leave it for the movers '', Miss Ada said.
He had only agreed with Miss Ada about getting the valet, but he had actually suggested the photograph to Mr. Jack.
Through the door, he had seen Mr. Jack walking around, waiting for Miss Ada.
`` I'll give you a medical certificate, framed, if you like '', Miss Ada had said.
Then Miss Ada had stood up, rustling and rustling, and gone upstairs.
Her subjects included several ultimately famous personages, and her subjects provided a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons at 27 Rue de Fleurus: " Ada " ( Alice B. Toklas ), " Two Women " ( The Cone Sisters, Claribel Cone and Etta Cone ), Miss Furr and Miss Skeene ( Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire ), " Men " ( Hutchins Hapgood, Peter David Edstrom, Maurice Sterne ), " Matisse " ( 1909, Henri Matisse ), " Picasso " ( 1909, Pablo Picasso ), " Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia " ( 1911, Mabel Dodge Luhan ), and " Guillaume Apollinaire " ( 1913 ).
In 1892, The Gore Hotel was opened by two sisters, Miss Ada and Ms Cooke, both descendants of Captain James Cooke.
Bodiam was the birthplace in 1881 of Miss A. E. ( Ada Elizabeth ) Levett, a leading medieval scholar and vice-principal of St. Hilda's College, Oxford.
The Queen of the festival ( Pallas Athene ) in 1922 was Miss Ada Bell Files from Fort Scott Kansas.
Their first representative was Ada Gabriela Bueno who was crowned as the first Miss Peru for Miss Universe in 1952, in a very exciting ceremony held in the Lawn Tennis Club in Lima.

Miss and had
Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.
That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.
Besides, Miss Henrietta -- as she was generally known since she had put up her hair with a chignon in the back -- had little time to spare them from her teaching and writing ; ;
But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.
But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.
Since she could not act, one part suited her as well as any other, and so she was the first person to offer Mr. Lincoln a glass of water, holding it up to the box, high above her head, to Miss Harris, who had asked for it.
Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.
In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob, on the same principle which had led Miss Harris to demand water.
There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.
She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.
Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.
Heywood Broun wrote: `` Belle Poitrine is the most original thinker since Caligula '', and even F.D.R. had to concede that `` if the rest of this nation showed the foresight and patriotism of Miss Poitrine, America would rapidly resemble ancient Babylon and Nineveh ''.

Miss and she
About that time Miss Langford straightened up and looked out the window directly at him, he thought, although probably she didn't even see him.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
Flick Nipe's and Neil Engle's Miss Phone ( Galophone-Prissy Miss ) is a fine-looking filly with good disposition and good gait, and she has worked up to date in 2:46.
After correspondence with Miss Packard and to the joy of Miss Packard and Miss Giles, she came to Atlanta, in the fall of 1888, to help wherever needed, although there was then no money available to pay her a salary.
The one line on the bride said she was Miss Lisa Carmody from Baton Rouge.
Miss Maude say she won't ''.
Miss Xydis has a natural affinity for the keyboard, and in the twenty years since her debut here she has gained the authority and inner assurance that lead to audience control.
Since she also has considerable technical virtuosity and a feeling for music in the romantic tradition, Miss Xydis gave her listeners a good deal of pleasure.
Miss Xydis was best when she did not need to be too probing.
Laura is a good role for Miss Resnik, and she gave it force, dramatic color and passion.
I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:
Miss Garland is not only one of the great singers of our time but she is one of the superb showmen.
Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

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