Word: lovesick
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...only woman lawyer: "An appalling number of women teachers come to Nevada for 'convenient' divorces. Five of them came on the day I left Reno. Four of them told me they wanted such divorces. Most of them intend at some time to remarry their divorced husbands." Meanwhile lovesick teachers took heart from two straws in the wind: 1) In London the County Council agreed, after holding out for twelve years, to hire married women as teachers. 2) In Washington Dr. Caroline Ware, onetime NRA Consumers' Adviser, one-time associate professor of history at Vassar, prepared...
...Republicans have had a saying . . . "The Roosevelt honeymoon is over." They were mighty poor judges of a lovesick couple. Why, he and the people have got a real love-match and it looks like it would run for at least six years-Will Rogers...
...spring when thousands of amorously barking seals follow their lovesick fancies up the coasts of Oregon and Washington toward the Pribilof Islands, their mating grounds, the U. S. sends its Coast Guard to escort them, allows them to be killed only by aborigines in canoes, using spears and harpoons. Last spring Indians killed 2,000 of a herd of over a million and thus collected their lawful share of the sealing rights. In the summer natives of the Pribilof Islands are hired by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to drive inland thousands of bachelor bull seals, knock them over...
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...stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical Gilbert & Sullivan to no Gilbert & Sullivan, the production will serve. The plot, as all should know, satirizes Oscar Wildian esthetics, which it quite drove out of business. Precious Poet Bunthorne captivates 20 lovesick maidens but not milkmaid Patience, whose true love is a simpler fellow, Poet Grosvenor. Her example sends the love-sick maidens to the arms of robust Dragoons...