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...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 »

Dear lassie, it is but daffin To had thy wooer up ay niff naffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...below-decks necking with 20-year-old Julia Gardner when a gun blew up on the new U.S.S. Princeton during a trial run on the Potomac, killing Secretary of State Abel Parker Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Walker Gilmer, Julia Gardner's father and two others. Wooer Tyler married the girl a few months later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Woo | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Called "Romeo and Juliet, 1936," it was played in three scenes, in each of which a stepladder served as the balcony. Scene I was between Juliet du Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below her and a black archiepiscopal figure (Martha Strayer, feature writer of the Washington News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ladies' Party | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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