Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mutual friends recall that the gentle Alice, alarmed by the impetuous, eager young Theodore, sometimes attempted to discourage him. On these occasions, T. R. would be plunged into despair. Pringle reports that one night during the first winter of the courtship an alarmed classmate telegraphed to New York that Roosevelt was somewhere in the woods near Cambridge and refused to come home. A close cousin, who hurried up, managed somehow to soothe him; and soon his confidence returned...
...subordinated all else to his courtship. He neglected his extracurricular activities, and his interest in the natural sciences waned. He wrote to his good friend Harry Minot, who had accompanied him on many a naturalist expedition, that he had done almost no collecting in the summer of 1879. In 1880, he added: "I write to you to announce my engagement to Miss Alice Lee; but do not speak of it till Monday. I have been in love with her for nearly two years now, and have made everything subordinate to winning her; so you can perhaps understand a change...
Across the Asparagus. Kennedy's Senate campaign had interrupted his courtship of dark-haired Jacqueline Bouvier, daughter of Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III. He had met her a year before at a friend's home ("I leaned across the asparagus," says Kennedy, "and asked her for a date"). In September 1953, Senator Jack and Socialite Jackie were married in Newport, with some 2,000 people arriving in chartered buses to stand outside while Boston's Archbishop Richard J. Gushing performed the nuptial Mass in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. Jackie soon found out what...
...first volume, Amelie in Love, published last year in the U.S., Troyat tenderly recounted the provincial courtship of Amelie Aubernat and Pierre Mazalaigue in the early 1900s. As this sequel opens, it is 1915. Pierre is a World War I infantry corporal at the front, while Amelie is struggling to run their Paris cafe, tend her infant daughter, and discipline her young brother, Dennis, who ricochets from the arms of a blowzy cashier to the inviting lingerie of a young laundress...
Rumple (book by Irving Phillips; music and lyrics by Ernest G. Schweikert and Frank Reardon) has just one real asset: Eddie Foy. He has the twin gifts of perfect stage presence and quiet audience courtship, the jaunty, pinpointed song-and-dance-man skill of the vaudeville era. He knows every last little hop, skip and jump, and nudge, bop and scram; he is master of the soft shoe, the dead pan, the faraway smile. As Rumple, a newspaper-cartoon character in danger of extinction because his creator has lost the power to portray him, he fights for survival with tactics...