Word: lovelornness
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Southern oratory is not very impressive to David L. Cohn. Born in Mississippi, an alumnus of the Universities of Virginia and Yale, Cohn has explored the purlieus of American love "from living room, bedroom, and bathroom" to lovelorn columns and women's magazines. And he has reached the most jaundiced conclusions...
...going to raise our price from 3? to 4? and we wanted to find something to help us over the bump. We were particularly interested in improving our circulation among young women-they're pretty important these days. We hadn't had anything like a lovelorn column since Beatrice Fairfax petered out about a year...
Observing the 50,000 soldiers and defense workers who had moved in on Denver (pop. 322,412), he resolved to add them to his mounting circulation before the bigger, haughtier, wealthier Denver Post gathered them in. A column of advice-to-the-lovelorn-one of journalism's oldest tried-&-true reader snatchers-might do the trick. In mysterious Mrs. Molly Mayfield he found an almost perfect editor. Nobody knew who "she" was and Editor Foster wouldn't tell...
...real fun in The Major and the Minor are Ginger's relations with the lovelorn cadets. Each of them tries to kiss her by showing her "how they took Sedan," then offering to show her how Paris fell. Cadet Wigton (Raymond Roe) takes Sedan with a fuzzily rapacious kiss, fails to take Paris. The other boys superimpose a line of their own on this basic strategy. Cadet Osborne (Frankie Thomas Jr.) turns out to be Masher Benchley's boy. Like his old man, he uses the Park Avenue technique, tells her that "you and I could make beautiful...
...Geechee went with Leroy. Three days later she was back. Then Author Rawlings found one of her five-gallon jugs of moonshine reduced to three gallons, the other to two. Said lovelorn 'Geechee: "It's the onliest way I can make out. It's the onliest thing lifts my heart up, times I think I'm jus' obliged to die." When Mrs. Rawlings fell from her horse and broke her neck, 'Geechee cared for her tenderly. But she taught Mrs. Rawlings' other two Negroes to drink. One morning Author Rawlings "awoke to pandemonium...