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Word: wooer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian immigrant who has acquired wealth and a resolute Hibernian spouse. The attendant complications need scarcely be enumerated. They include the intrusion on the wife's well-ordered domain of organ-grinders and spaghetti-jugglers from Mr. Malatesta's laborious past. They further include a titled wooer for the daughter of the family and all manner of familiar domestic difficulties. The formula has been working well for a good many years now. It may well work again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: First Nights | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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