Word: courting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Closed Deal. In Oklahoma City, Mrs. Bessie Ledick told the court that when she offered to sell a set of false teeth to Fred E. Humphrey, he tried them on for size, seemed satisfied with the fit, but refuses either to return them...
...mark of disrespect; they did not recognize him. Louis St. Laurent possesses to a marked degree the 19th Century attributes of probity, confidence and dignity?which seem to be taking on a new luster as the undignified 20th Century reaches its halfway point. He does not court public adulation. Besides, Canadians had given him the salute that counts in last June's general election: the widest mandate ever handed to a national leader (TIME, July 4). When the Canadian Parliament opens next week, St. Laurent's Liberal Party will hold a record total of 187 out of 262 seats...
...when big British and U.S. companies were coming to Quebec to develop the province's timber, mineral and hydroelectric resources, and the biggest of them were St. Laurent's clients. He was regularly on the go (sometimes at a fee of $200 a day) pleading cases before the Supreme Court in Ottawa and the Privy Council in London. He collected company directorates, became one of the few French Canadians to sit on the board 9f directors of the Bank of Montreal...
This week, Ted strode on to the stadium court to test his new-found relaxation against the most relaxed man in big-time tennis: Pancho Gonzales, who had hammered Frankie Parker out of the tournament with his customary booming serve. On Labor Day, in a match marked by no great relaxation on either side, Pancho Gonzales beat Ted Schroeder for his second U.S. singles championship...
...right, relishes every minute of Cagliostro's swashbuckling career. Rolling his eyes like an end man in an oldtime minstrel show, he charms crippled aristocrats right off their crutches, ogles a beautiful blonde into marriage against her will, beetles and bluffs his way into the court of King Louis XV, then meets his death in a prancing duel atop a tower high above Paris, with Marie Antoinette at his side...