Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strangely, only a few well-informed upperclassmen in men's universities realize the situation and capitalize upon it. Women have lost the initiative; mankind's star is again in the ascendant. After many years the sighing suitor has passed on. Now rules the strong, silent (Harvard...
...Marquess, 26, proposed to marry an American, a Boston girl named Kathleen Kennedy. The Marquess had been mentioned as a suitable suitor for the hand of Princess Elizabeth. Kathleen's father was Joseph P. Kennedy, wealthy, Irish and no admirer of the British. He had been a popular U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, who had later thrown away his popularity and then some.* What was more, the Kennedys were good Catholics; the Cavendishes have been strenuously Protestant since the 16th Century...
...becomes the local Sinatra by claiming to have killed his father. Opposite him, playing the feminine lead of Pegeen Mike, is the Idler president, Leslie Paul, who finds herself overcome by his lethal charms. Out of luck, is Shawn Keogh, played by Ingersoll Cunningham V-12, a timid suitor, sever quite ready to take the big plunge...
Sitadevi embraced Mohammedanism, got a divorce. She and her suitor sped to Bombay at New Year's, married quietly after Sitadevi had resumed her Hindu faith. In Baroda, the Gaekwar's subjects talked of asking him to abdicate...
Monty is an old tosspot actor with a crippled daughter (Ida Lupino) whom he dropped on the floor as an infant and who has been vainly trying to get him sober ever since. Daughter finally accepts a suitor and simultaneously persuades her father to attempt a comeback in King Lear. From there on the plot falls to pieces...