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Word: wooer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl grows older, to Marigold's dismay she acquires a wooer. But in sign language the tearful girl rebuffs her suitor, telling him that she must repay the love and kindness of her surrogate father by being his companion and comforter. Tears in his own eyes, old Marigold proclaims the lovers man and wife with his blessing. Five years go by, when a tiny hand turns the doorknob of the cart door, followed by dark eyes and curly locks. "Grandfather," says the little girl. "She can speak!" cries Marigold, as "the happy and yet pitying tears fell rolling down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Artist as Sob Sister | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...support of the armed forces by agreeing to stop wooing Peronistas. Then, by radio, he made his "final plea" for an end to the strike, blaming "Communists" and "political groups who believe it is possible to restore the ousted dictatorship." When the plea failed, Frondizi acted. He fired Peronista-Wooer Frigerio. declared a 30-day state of siege, ordered a nationwide roundup of strike leaders. Within a few hours, 468 Peronistas and Communists were in jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: A Taste of Firmness | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...civilized"-i.e., share the wealth, even when his only asset is a wife. In the play the heroine made the merry most of her polyandrous predicament, but poor Ava gets less bed than bored. Her husband (Stewart Granger) is interested in other things, and her would-be-wooer (David Niven) appears too vague to know what he wants. The only other man on the island is (or seems to be) a savage who can say nothing but "Boola!" In fact, the most interesting thing anybody can find to say is, "Now let me see, is there anything IVe forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...dreams, and the world into which he constantly reawakens is a bit more vicious, but the idea is the same. Phillipe plays a music teacher whose drams take him back into history. The dreams center about his success as a composer of operas, a soldier of fortune, and a wooer of beautiful women. One of these women is Gina Lollabrigia...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Beauties of the Night | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...contest with each other for a vacant place, and preserve self-respect better by refusing to strive with one another for an open pulpit. A minister, like a maiden, should insist on being told that he is the one & only person who is in the mind of the wooer-in this case, the congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Etiquette | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

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