Word: suitoring
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...Suitor. Rail Juggler Robert R. Young was determined to get the girl, even if he had to take up with her prosperous friends too. The Interstate Commerce Commission had turned down the trial marriage of his Chesapeake & Ohio with the New York Central, partly because it would take business away from the Virginian Railway Co. (TIME, May 24). So Suitor Young made a new proposal: he would buy into or merge with the Virginian too, and merge it with the Central and C. & O. Said the thriving, coal-hauling Virginian: Not feasible. ICC said nothing...
...Chase. In Los Angeles, Rosemary McCarthy, 27, asking for police protection from her suitor, John L. Hall, complained: "He follows me to work . . . tries to take me home . . . chases me . . . whistles at me from behind trees and peers at me from behind pillars . .. leaps out at me on the street . . . scares me witless by jumping at me from doorways." Protested 74-year-old Hall to police: "This is proper conduct for a man wooing a woman...
...Catherine Sloper (strikingly played by Britain's Wendy Hiller), an awkward, passive, plain-looking girl with great expectations. She falls passionately in love with an attractive fortune hunter (well played by Peter Cookson); but her coldhearted, sardonic father (well played by Basil Rathbone), thoroughly aware of the suitor's motives and utterly unconcerned with his daughter's feelings, forbids the match on pain of disinheritance...
Hollywood was unkind to Hilda because she would not play in anti-Nazi films ("after all, my family was still there"). A rejected suitor denounced her to the FBI. Hilda went to Mexico, became a Mexican citizen...
...swan, she is, of course, downright sensational. The long, low whistles she inspires in all the male members of the cast are the most realistic part of the entire picture. Once her glasses are off, Maureen's only real problem is making up her mind which lovesick suitor she'll marry...