Word: flirted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actor Ritchard plays an eternal playboy, a gleeful, middle-aged enfant terrible, an international charmer and flirt. When he descends on the correct San Francisco world in which his daughter lives with her mother and stepfather, and his own glamour puts the girl's serious young ranchman fiancé in the shade, the wedding bells begin to grow faint. For father's ideal of enjoying every real or sham pleasure goes to daughter's head like champagne. Simultaneously, the blood rushes to the ranchman's, and he denounces father's wastrel charms in ringing tones...
...Radcliffe freshmen: "Better not be engaged until twenty-two. You are then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man. Nature has thrown a wall of maidenly modesty around you. Preserve that and not let your affection be trifled with while too young by any youthful flirt who is in search of hearts to conquer...
Couple Two is the uneasy union of a shy young scientist (Jeffrey Hunter) and the sort of neighborhood flirt (Patricia Owens) who likes to bring out the beast in men, and then feed it peanuts...
...nearby small town and taken Joe's infant sons with them. But tragedy has not softened mamma. Her nose comes out of the Old Testament only to sniff disapprovingly, and Ella's fun is limited to sneak meetings with a minister's daughter where they flirt with the devil by eating forbidden candy...
...Gamble. Within its own borders, Britain had a whopping surplus ($1.2 billion), but Macmillan refused to flirt with any idea of a tax cut. Instead, he increased taxes on company profits, tacked another few shillings on leaf tobacco to raise the price of a pack of cigarettes to 54?, and lifted the subsidy on bread (thus increasing the cost of a loaf to 12?). Mostly he aimed at forcing the public to keep its money in bank or sock instead of buying what should be exported...