Word: swains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dramatic Club swore in 13 new members and elected Robert C. Seaver '49 and Robert Swain '50 to its executive board at a meeting last week, HDC president Robert E. Miller '48 disclosed last night...
...lures him back toward the log fire by flirting with her boss (Franchot Tone). The boss is not skittish about marriage; he has tried it before. To knowing moviegoers, that sods him down. He stays in the running, all the same, until the ingenious huntress invents a third swain (Eddie Albert), meant to be a home-town admirer who yearns to take her away from it all. For a while, this invention staves off a trite ending, but can't prevent it. The chase ends with the proper man properly bagged...
...tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...
...When a pretty statue (Ava Gardner) is imported into a department store as a publicity stunt, a kiss from a shy window decorator (Robert Walker) melts the cold marble into ardent flesh. The living Venus has arms and some interesting ideas about using them. Her timid swain is mainly interested in 1) persuading her to go back to work as an objet d'art, and 2) placating his landlady, his girl and his boss...
...base for rescuing Napoleon from St. Helena, withdrew the small wartime garrison. Later, three sailors who had served with Nelson joined the Glasses. To Tristan, too, came a few dark-skinned women from St. Helena. Today, the much intermarried but sturdy Tristanites have only seven surnames among them: Glass, Swain, Green, Reppeto, Lavarello, Rogers and Hagan...