Word: wooing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the volcanic nature of the young erupted in two curious tribal gatherings-one at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the other at Balboa, Calif.-as thousands of students, freed from their books by Easter vacations, swarmed seal-like to the two towns' beaches to swim, fight, drink, woo, bask in the sun and howl at the southern moon...
...strands of its many characters and incidents are adroitly interwoven. But the screenplay is often on the super-melodramatic side. Subtitled The Secret Lives and Loves of a French Jury, the picture goes in for such farfetched plotting as having the defendant's lover (Michel Auclair) woo an elderly lady juror (Valentine Tessier) in order to win over her vote. And, even for courtroom drama, Justice Is Done is far too talky...
Minor Alterations. To woo the nationalists, who insist that France must keep full control over its army, Mayer presented the five other EDC partners (West Germany, Italy and Benelux) with nine last-minute protocols, each one subtly designed to change the sense and substance of EDC in France's favor. If accepted, the most important changes would...
...disappeared. The travel agency did not say why they wanted Morton-Stewart, only that they were "most anxious to trace him." It was not hard. Soon afterward he checked into Rome's Hotel Excelsior as Horace Albert Hall. He stayed only long enough (a week) to woo and win a pretty young Italian widow, then left her in the lurch and sped...
Whether they woo Radcliffe girls or not, a surprising number of students are marrying while they are still in the University, according to Mrs. Myles Baker, Director of the Office of Harvard Wives...