Word: flirting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improvident father clapped into debtors' prison. Young Charles did a five-month stretch of child labor in a shoe-polish factory in the Strand; years later, he could not walk past the site because it made him cry. In his early 20s, he was jilted by a flirt whom he had worshiped for four years. On the rebound, he married Catherine Hogarth,* a pouter pigeon of a woman who gave him ten children but small joy. This brood he later called "the largest family ever known with the smallest disposition to do anything for themselves...
...World." Tatiana was a shocking flirt herself, but stuck to her own class. At Moscow's fancy balls and masquerades, she waltzed away with many a nobleman's heart. Off ballroom floors, there were brief trysts in dim corridors. "He gave me his photo and I tucked it in my bodice, almost without looking at it, but as far as I could see I liked...
...flung themselves hopelessly against the moving horde. Others, already defeated, just watched the tide, making mental notes. But there was nothing to be done about it. Every morning, in every city in the U.S., the bosses watched glumly as the last stenographer disappeared down the hall with a departing flirt of her skirt, purse clutched firmly in one hand, cigarettes and matches in the other...
...truants, but instead falls in love with Lola Lola. He marries her and joins the troupe of actors. Soon he is reduced to playing stooge for the magician. In one horrifying scene he is made to crow like a rooster on the stage while he watches his wife flirt with the strong man in the wings. He finally goes mad and, after an attempt to kill Lola Lola, he dies in his old classroom while onstage Lola Lola sings "from head to too I am designed for love...
...sung it with little heed from bogotanos or anybody else. The boyaquenses, a mournful sort, usually sing of the cruel landlord, the icy mountains, the deceived husband. The tolimenses more often compose their songs about their burros, canoes, crops, or sweethearts. Straw-hatted, sandal-shod, machete-lugging mountaineers flirt as they dance to the music. Their girls, swaying and whirling with lifted skirt, respond coquettishly to each advance...