Word: courtships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...called away on a Mormon mission; Ezra was left to run the family farm for two years. A leader in studies and sports at local Mormon schools, Ezra entered Utah State Agricultural College and met Flora Amussen, a tennis-playing coed considered "most popular girl in town." While the courtship was still young, the Mormon Church stepped in: Benson was picked as a missionary to England. As is expected of any young Latter-day Saint, Benson answered the call without question...
...wife and I have been truly, deeply in love, and knowing her as well as I do, I feel that any real happiness for her would have lain in my happiness or companionship, etc. We were married Nov. 10, 1951, after a courtship of several years, and our child was born Dec. 9, 1952. That leaves either both wife and child behind (living), or both dying with me. I have chosen the latter...
...Joan Greenwood), whose cousin, Algernon Moncrieff (Michael Denison), loves Jack's ward, Cecily Cardew (Dorothy Tutin). But because of Jack's ignoble habit of representing himself as his imaginary brother Earnest and Algy's adoption of Earnest's name and wicked reputation to speed his courtship of Cecily, both girls believe them selves to be engaged to the nonexistent Earnest until this pleasant deception is cleared up in a splendid barrage of turn-of-the-century epigrams...
Romantic Filibuster. The Prairie Giant fell with a crash that reverberated through the social circles of the capital. Summoning all his demagogue's dialectic and caucus cunning, Senator Ratcliffe sets out to filibuster Mrs. Lee out of her heart, her hand and her income. As the senatorial courtship wheezes forward, Adams steps out of the wings to take a peek at U.S. society of the late 19th century...
...courtship of Desi and Lucille was predictably stormy. Says a friend: "He's very jealous. She's very jealous-they're both very jealous." They were married in 1940, while Desi was leading his orchestra at the Roxy in New York and Lucille was between pictures in Hollywood. She flew in from the Coast; they got up at 5 a.m. and drove to Connecticut, where they were married by a justice of the peace. Since they had no apartment, Desi compromised by carrying his bride across the threshold of his dressing room at the Roxy. Hollywood offered...