Word: wooer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began when the officers' wives came on board for dinner and Billie Dove, delayed by the importunities of a onetime suitor, one of the officers, was caught on board; how Soussanin, a loose-lipped fellow, enemy of the captain, detected her in the cabin of her onetime wooer and made trouble. And how the suitor, Donald Reed, killed him and was killed himself in battle with the Istria. The gentlemen of the admiralty court put on their caps and declare the Captain innocent. Best shots: Miss Dove in evening dress...
...departed youth. It takes its strange abode in the heart of a Jewess, keeping alive in her perturbed breast the love she bore the spirit when it possessed a body of its own. Priestly folk would exorcise the disturber in the interests of sensible matrimony to a wealthy wooer. But with shrieks and groans the ghostly lover wages a sturdy, though mystical, battle for the lady and romance. With this material the Neighborhood Players present, as they did last year, tense, reverent drama, made as plausibly realistic as the material will permit...
Meanwhile, Il Duce, shrewd wooer of privacy on his official vacation, which began last week, arrived from the Republic of San Marino by motor (see above), sought the quay at Riccione, slipped unremarked on board a sailboat with his family...
...helter skelter, but at last an empty stomach induced him to try to make a living. So he enlisted as butler in the family of a puisne judge. There he learned to put on style, and as the gayest and sassiest man on the island he became a wooer of the local belle, Jezebel Pettyfer. At this flowing tide of his affairs he lost his position because of an unfortunate argument with his mistress over the disposition of the cadaver of her lamented dog Aristotle. That same night he proposed to Jezebel, offering her Jehu Sennacherib Dyle in holy matrimony...
...love, forgives the upstart and does not kill him. Her royal keeper does not mind whom she loves so long as her tenderness for somebody makes her forget she has a fiery temperament to uphold. Thus, on a cynical note, ends an uneven revelation that a too passionate wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps...