Word: woo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Received uncomprehending feminine stares to slangy suggestions: "Like to pitch a little woo, baby...
...four second round matches played since Thursday, Hyde, Varsity number 2 man, had a real struggle defeating Bob Feinberg, and the final scores were 8-6, 14-12. In the other three, Wally MacDonad beat Wang D. Woo 3E, 6-2, 6-3; Charles P. Stewart took Irbin Wright 6-2, 6-4; and Ted Rowse triumphed over Ken Scribner...
...There are some girls at Radcliffe Who live just like the dead. They study hard from morn to night And sleep in an empty bed. Although they live vicariously They're sad and lonely, too-- Because they have no Harvard Freshman With whom to pitch the woo...
...seats eight people and is good for ten performances. This announcement by the San Francisco Opera Company may not trumpet tidings of great joy to U.S. operagoers, but it shows the way the wind is blowing. Opera, most class-conscious and costly of the arts, is out to woo the musical masses, and, like a condescending dowager, is doing it rather badly. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will cut the price of next season's orchestra seats (for its subcribers) from $6.50 to $5. The lower-priced Chicago Opera whittled the price of its best seats from...
Radio Vichy in mid-May launched a campaign to woo French-Americans in New England back "to ancient tradition." For Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born brains of NBC's French section, this was a lulu. Said Auberjonois one night in his short-wave news broadcast to France...