Word: suitoring
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...nasty school scandal off onto the shoulders of a young dean, he catches dialogue which seems not so much an artistic invention as an overheard invasion of privacy. An early scene in Southampton, when Elizabeth's mother politely grills her daughter's not-quite-acceptable suitor at dinner is taut with O'Hara's unique ear for innuendo and eye for man's decorous inhumanity...
Flattery & Blame. Krock complains about the "social flattery" which the President directs toward Washington newsmen, but he is forced to confess: "I have myself on occasion been infused with the warmth of good will engendered by this courtship of a suitor of such charm and unique distinction...
Little Me has the spit-and-polish shine of painstaking professionalism. The most prodigious comic labors of the evening are performed by Sid Caesar as the septempartite suitor of Belle Poitrine, the All-America showgirl...
...cried Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns. In London a melancholy joke went the rounds: "Not since 1066 has a Harold been so badly done in the eye by a Frenchman." To the exasperated British, it all recalled the fairy story of the princess who assigns to an unwelcome suitor a series of seemingly impossible tasks to perform-but when the suitor returns triumphant to claim her hand, the princess says: "Oh, I could never marry a man with red hair." Paris wags were retailing the joke about De Gaulle's new inferiority complex: "He thinks he's Napoleon...
...danger of climbing so high it will disappear off the top. Mr. Botein is simply a slow starter; but like Miss Eakin, once he is in control of himself, he takes every advantage of a very rich part. His outrage at the arrogance of his guests (Miss Neville's suitor, and his daughter's) comes in as many shapes and colors as Howard Johnson's ice cream; and given the choice, I'd reach for the outrage instead of the sweet. Miss Eakin's part isn't as funny, but that is surely no reflection on her abilities, which...