Word: suitoring
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Georgia is the marriageable daughter, doll-like, laughing, dreamy, but "smart where the skin's off." Randall Oliver is her forbidden suitor, a cool young elegant, tailored by Rambeaux & Rambeaux of Memphis; and Charles Boardman, whom Georgia later married, rides off to college with a slave, two horses, dogs and his gun. Such central story as the book has is that of Cousin Ellen Stark, who comes to "Heaven Trees" from chill and granite Vermont, there to unfold from a pale violet of a girl into the rarest Southern orchid of them...
...asthmatic daughter-shallow and caddish Painter Thomas Lawrence being lugged in to emphasize the inferiority of the Siddons-Kemble strain. The one study that comes off concerns a brilliant young French historian who mastered life, and then frittered it away, by emulating a character in Balzac-a rebuffed suitor who paused on the threshold, returned to the assault...
...lives, though not ever after or in unmitigated bliss, at least long enough to father some little Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter who, after losing a gallant military lover, serves her family in season and out; hands over a later suitor-her last chance-to her lovelorn cousin; fusses over the little nephews and great-nephews as they grow up into soldiers, painters and poets out of the mercantile tradition of the family. Aricie grows "inhuman through excess of altruism," a woman who kills herself with kindness to others...
...Japanese, fireflies are the souls of departed lovers lighting the paths of living swains. Whereas in Occidental climes a robust suitor will kiss a flower and toss it to his sweetheart with truculent self-possession, a Japanese lover reverently presents a firefly encased in a small wicker basket...
Proud Flesh. The burlesque idea is gaining favor. Again the old-fashioned melodrama of the Spanish señorita, the laborer lover, the angry Spanish suitor is prepared. Its general age and weight are ridiculed. Eleanor Boardman, Harrison Ford and others are involved. Such productions are the cinema's saving sense of humor...