Word: wooing
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...comings and goings stirred up tremendous ill-feeling here. They are a misguided group and certainly an irritating one. I was delighted that you placed your review of this incredible slush under "Organizations" and not "Religion." These people dream of substituting M.R.A. for religion whenever possible, and they woo the Catholic and Anglican clergy shamelessly...
When Manhattan Hosier Abraham Feinberg stitched himself into control of the fraying Julius Kayser & Co. a year ago, the company's once-famous line of medium-priced lingerie, gloves and stockings had about as much sex appeal as sackcloth. Board Chairman Feinberg set out to woo the hard-to-sell, fashion-conscious college and career girl, hired top designers to turn out fetching new trifles, e.g., red "mambo" panties. He also revamped Kayser advertising to emphasize girlish glamour instead of spinstership thrift: "Be Wiser-Buy Kayser," its longtime slogan, became "You Owe It To Your Audience." When Kayser...
...11th century English pub, more refreshments will be served. Says the script: "Please note that as the tour goes through the Red Lion, you are to serve the guests from our Irish mugs 'arf and 'arf." At the pre-opening "Victory Dinner," Host Hilton will wine and woo some 400 guests with a show by Comedians Jack Benny and George Gobel, spread out a feast costing Hilton $30 per plate...
...most of the picture. Betty cuddles up with an overage student (Robert Cummings) who stays on in school because his grandfather's will provides for his education but sets no time limit. Student Orson Bean falls in love with Sheree, and School President Charles Coburn sets out to woo Bean's millionaire father ("He's been in the East somewhere," says Coburn thoughtfully. "Arabia. Persia, one of those Yvonne de Carlo countries...
Daoud also made friendly contact with the Pathan independence leader in West Pakistan, frail, bearded, lumbago-plagued Mirza Ali, also known as the Fakir of Ipi. The Fakir of Ipi's impetuous followers, who love their girls second only to their guns and woo them with a ditty which begins, "Your eyes are two loaded pistols," thereupon increased their pressure on the Karachi government. By now, Prime Minister Daoud, expanding his notion of Pakhtoonistan to include more than half of West Pakistan, was demanding all the territory west of the Indus River, right down to the Arabian...