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...There are some girls at Radcliffe Who live just like the dead. They study hard from morn to night And sleep in an empty bed. Although they live vicariously They're sad and lonely, too-- Because they have no Harvard Freshman With whom to pitch the woo...
...seats eight people and is good for ten performances. This announcement by the San Francisco Opera Company may not trumpet tidings of great joy to U.S. operagoers, but it shows the way the wind is blowing. Opera, most class-conscious and costly of the arts, is out to woo the musical masses, and, like a condescending dowager, is doing it rather badly. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will cut the price of next season's orchestra seats (for its subcribers) from $6.50 to $5. The lower-priced Chicago Opera whittled the price of its best seats from...
Radio Vichy in mid-May launched a campaign to woo French-Americans in New England back "to ancient tradition." For Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born brains of NBC's French section, this was a lulu. Said Auberjonois one night in his short-wave news broadcast to France...
...glamour boys are getting rare and yet they say you'll find them there At Yale, at Yale most any time (and oh, so near to Vassar) The clink of glasses greets you too, and after dark the long halloo And slightly fried woo-woo, woo-woo of wolves that ogle Vassar. --The Yale Dally News
...alert let go its giant banshee wail-"Woo-oo-oo-oo-oo!"-a dreadful, penetrating warble, like no other sound on earth. A boy's voice said: "Don't worry, sis, I'll look after you. We'll get in the air-raid shelter just like the practice at school...