Word: wooing
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...Priscilla, the nomination of 1924, who was pursued by redskin Hiram Johnson, Pilgrim Weeks promised her protection and put in a good word for his friend Captain Coolidge, to which she made answer: "Why does he not come himself and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing I am surely not worth the winning. Surely a maid worth courting must also be worth the asking. Granted Calvin is silent, he must find words if he wants me. If he seeks me let him ask; till then, I answer silence with silence...
...Peking Government ordered the forts of Woo-Sung to open fire on the naval squadron that rebelled last week. The order was, however, ignored. The Government also stated that the naval rebels established a mail and telegraph censorship...
...Boston exhibition was to be expected. But, Cincinnati, fore-warned, was spared from her baleful influence. Madame Gadski followed her; but the American Legion was awake to its duty. "Music hath charms", they remembered, and decided that her voice should be no incantation, like the Lorelei's, to woo her hearers into political philandering...
...judging from its history, has been in no small degree instrumental to the expansion of Japanese Imperialism. For this very reason all friends of China and of the peace of the world have recently voiced their opinion of opposition to the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. T. C. Woo, 2G., October...
Might that sweet hand I woo...