Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Lake Savant, Ontario, an amorous redskin sang songs to his Indian maiden. Bored, she fled into the woods with a more desirable suitor. The jilted, jealous brave methodically set about firing the entire forest area. Detected by a forest ranger, he retreated; was later arrested by the famed inescapable redshirt police...
...after the departure of her inamorata, the lady herself makes big money in musical comedy. In part, she owes her success to an intent but unscrupulous young man-about-town who has stolen the money to pay for her theatrical ventures. Infuriated when she refuses to marry him, this suitor goes to the South Seas to kill his rival but remains to convince him that the lady has deceived both of them in her greed for gold. Accordingly they decoy her to the South Seas that they may punish her for so doing. Eventually, when her innocence becomes apparent...
...priest Charles Leatherbee '29 Abraham G. R. Holden '31 Solomon Abbott Peterson '30 Ben Judas L. F. Robinson '30 Joseph J. M. Sargent '31 Envious One G. W. Harrington '30 Zachary D. W. Moreland '28 Host R. H. Jones '30 Shepherd G. R. Holden '31 Shepherd Abbott Peterson '30 Suitor Hamilton Warren ocC. Suitor Adam Rhodes '30 Mary Helen Lewis Elizabeth Helen Field Anastasia Sue Birnie Handmaiden Jessica Hill Handmaiden Margaret Child...
Chiang loomed last week as the most matrimonially romantic of modern Chinese conquerors, because he has openly persisted in wooing a lady known to have refused him at first. In China such a refusal causes the suitor to "lose face," a disgrace so abyssmal that many Chinese have committed suicide rather than endure it. Usually this contingency is circumvented by having the proposal of marriage conveyed through intermediaries; but Chiang Kai-shek has been obliged to risk his "face" because his fiancee was that intensely Westernized "modern woman," Miss Soong Meiling...
Engaged. Miss Alicia Patterson, daughter of Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of Liberty, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, to James Simpson Jr., son of James Simpson, President of Marshall Field & Co. On the day the engagement was announced, J. Ledyard Smith, rival suitor, obtained a license to marry her. Later he returned...