Word: suitoring
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...original sources of these conflicts have become obscured to such a degree that the truth is impenetrable. Each woman has her own version of the past. Edie refers to one suitor who was twenty years her junior, and reiterates her charge that Edith scared him away. Edith on the other hand claims, at a moment when Edie is out of the room, that the man said of her daughter: "How can a woman with such a beautiful voice be so cold in person?" and for this reason the mother suggested that he not come back to visit them...
Grey Gardens might also be called Edie's Complaint. Edie is afraid her mother will ask Jerry to move in. Edie does not think her mother is fair to her. She never gets to have any friends. Her mother chased away her only serious suitor years before...
...becoming the first modern woman dictator last year, Indira Gandhi proved anew that women can be as domineering as men. An ardent feminist, she has fought the Indian practice of bridegrooms demanding dowries. (One telling vignette: in response to a suitor's request for a motor scooter as a dowry, one village girl jilted the man; he had to settle for a sheep from a less affluent bride...
...Reagan never achieved first rank as an actor or star. "I became the Errol Flynn of the B's," he says. He also appeared in several A-quality productions, though never in a lead part. Some typical roles: admirer of a dying Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), suitor to Shirley Temple in That Hagan Girl (1947) and a scientist who played second banana to a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). Two roles won him acclaim: George Gipp, the doomed halfback of Knute Rockne, All American (1940), and Drake McHugh, the playboy whose legs are amputated needlessly...
...Florizel, Polixenes's teenage son and suitor of Perdita, Richard Backus is an attractive chap. But he is not at ease with classical poetic diction. One is constantly aware of listening to an actor mouthing lines rather than a person voicing thoughts...