Word: suitoring
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...stories in the collection, perhaps ten of them should have been thrown out by O'Hara's editors-if an author as well established as he still has editors. In one of the failures, a woman is supposed to have slept with her daughter's suitor to keep him (or so she tells herself) from straying to another girl. In another, a man who is neither drunk nor perverted accepts his host's offer to let him sleep with the host's wife, a former prostitute, for a fee of $100. These stories...
...Unwelcome Suitor. The Central's lap, however, proved to have scant attraction for the other heiresses. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad stockholders flatly rejected Central overtures in favor of merger talks with the more profitable Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. The Central was also rebuffed when it tried to elbow into the projected merger of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the New York, Chicago & St. Louis (Nickel Plate) Railroad. And since the Pennsylvania owns 32.6% of the Norfolk & Western's voting stock, Perlman began to fear that the girl he had rejected might join the N. & W.-Nickel Plate combine, leaving...
...start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles Dunster (because, says Moore, ''the name Densher could not be enunciated today without a ribald response"), and they gave the opera an extra twist by making Densher announce, after the death of the heiress, that he no longer loves his covetous mistress, Kate...
...painted image of Dali, mustache tips rising to eyebrows, eyes piercing the audience. As the gauze tableau faded out, the heroine came on, her two-yard-long tresses supported by a red crutch. Presently she extracted a pie-sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward a piano gushing milk, a blind man sitting before a television set, a beef carcass hanging above the singers' heads with a trumpet fixed horizontally over its rear...
...brother Hassan II, to see her married. Hassan II acted swiftly. He sent word that it was his pleasure for Aisha and her two sisters, Malika, 28, and Fatima Zorah, 32, to marry expeditiously; the choice of husbands was left to them. Each woman promptly said yes to a suitor. Malika, who runs the Red Crescent Society (Moslem equivalent of the Red Cross), became engaged to Rabat's smooth Ambassador to France, Mohammed ben Abdallah Cherkaoui, 40; shy Fatima Zorah picked Prince Moulay Ali el Alaoui, 38, a first cousin and the royal family's shrewdest business brain...