Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under like the rest. When the old man discovered that she had been seduced by his nephew, the night before he went to be killed in France, he paid her the unwanted compliment of repeating his vow in her favor. But when she had the spirit to receive a suitor who had been in jail for his pacifist opinions. Stoner refused to give him houseroom for more than an hour. But Jocelle went ahead and married him anyhow. Finally she got the old man to admit that he had forgotten what his wife looked like, and he gave...
When Phelps Dodge Corp. set out with cash in its pockets to woo and master rich, independent United Verde Copper Co. of Arizona (TIME, Feb. 18), most people thought it was the only suitor. Last week it was learned that there was another. American Smelting & Refining, which Simon Guggenheim took over from his brother Daniel in 1919 and built into one of the world's biggest non-ferrous metal smelters & refiners, had bought a big block of stock in United Verde earlier than Phelps Dodge. Last week in Manhattan the two suitors rushed to a meeting of United Verde...
Other member of the permanent Hearst lobby is James T. Williams Jr., chief editorial writer for Hearstpapers. In the time of Roosevelt I he was a frequent White House visitor, as suitor to Daughter Alice. Now diffident and middleaged, he is rarely seen in the Press Galleries, usually meets his official friends over the dinner table in his mother's Anchorage apartment. His specialty is army & navy...
Giddily, the Memorial Hall Clock let the wind caress her early yesterday morning in a manner reminiscent of her poignant Civil War days. But the ardor of her lusty suitor sent blood to one of her four faces so rapidly that it lost all sense of time...
Near Quitman, Miss., Sanders Moss forbade Floyd Watson to court his daughter. Angered, Suitor-Reject Watson shot & killed Mother Moss, Father Moss, Daughter Moss, Nephew Moss, then wounded a fifth Moss and two companions...