Word: suitoring
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...Lyon, today Queen Elizabeth. When the present King George VI presently sought his sister's bridesmaid's hand, she made no secret of her Scottish impression that he had been sent. She unaffectedly told His Royal Highness that she could not, she really could not accept a suitor who had been sent. This was in her father's frowning Glamis Castle where, according to Shakespeare, Macbeth murdered Duncan, and the English press likes to repeat its tale of the commoner daughter of a Scottish earl who was unyielding and unimpressed until her King's second...
...Blue Springs, Mo., upon discovering that his wife was in love with Farmer Jim Phelps, Jay Fleener, married 20 years, arranged a divorce, bought Mrs. Fleener and Suitor Phelps a wedding license, paid for the wedding, gave them $500 for their honeymoon, provided Mr. & Mrs. Phelps work and lodging at his tourist camp when they came back...
That Oriental young women have ideals distinctively their own appeared in Tokyo, where students at the Government's "schools for prospective wives" lately voted by large majorities that the ideal Japanese suitor is a rather stout man with a steady job who secures his fiancèe through a broker, takes his wife home to live comfortably with his parents and three times per month escorts her to the theatre or a movie...
...Suitor In Dallas. Tex., Widow Mrs. L. Brunnett sued for $5,000 damages after Suitor Karl W. Hagedtorn hugged her, broke four ribs...
...Muriel Flood (Miss Bankhead) is alternately berated and praised by her hard-boiled and single-minded manager (Clay Clement), is tirelessly pursued by a stodgy suitor from her home town. The sympathy with which she receives his proposals of marriage is discouraged by the manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When...