Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition to the projected formation of a permanent organization of C.I.O. affiliates. Three weeks ago Attorney Padway, who previously has represented I.L.G.W.U., lunched with Mr. Dubinsky, inspired a reasonable guess that no small part of the general counsel's duties in the near future will be to woo the waverer, invite him and the union back into...
Publisher Havell, certain the Digest had bumped bottom, announced that he hoped to resume publication in less than 60 days and continued to woo his elusive angel with promises the Digest's circulation would be all the better for being pared from 465,000 to a solid, potentially-profitable 300,000 by doing away with combination and bulk sales. Against liabilities of $1,492,056 (including a $60,000 demand note to Funk & Wagnalls-original Literary Digest publishers-$63,000 for paper, $30,000 for printing, $612,000 to readers for paid-up subscriptions), the Digest listed assets...
Shoemakers' plots are mightily involved even though the play has been cut to about half its length. One thread of plot entangles Rowland Lacy (Joseph Gotten) who, instead of going to war in France, disguises himself as a journeyman in order to woo his lady. Other plotters are Vincent Price and Edith Barrett, whose contributions to the high cockalorum are good, but occasionally strained. The real heroes are the shoemakers themselves, and the best of these jackanapes in droopy drawers and flapping codpieces is Hiram Sherman. His finegrained playing of low comedy won him a first-night ovation...
Nobody gets very upset over the "Perfect Specimen." Trivial to an unsurpassed degree, none of the leading roles in the picture show any appreciable amount of acting ability. Edward Everett Horton, as Miss Robson's secretary, and boxer Hugh (Woo-Woo!) Herbert are amusing enough. Best line:--Miss Robeson, on being awakened by a lustily crowing cock, cries, "Dismiss the rooster...
When King Frederick Perry I of England abdicated the throne of amateur tennis last autumn to woo the almighty dollar, the heir-apparent was Prince Donald Budge of the U. S., unless .aging Pretender Jack Crawford of Australia could make good his claim. At stake was more than the throne. Without King Frederick, England had little chance of retaining the Davis Cup, and the challenge round for that 37-year-old receptacle, which Australasia and France have each won six times, Great Britain nine times and the U. S. ten times (but not since 1926), would really be the American...