Word: wooings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hempstead, N.Y. judge ordered one Anthony Koskakowski to cease blowing his automobile horn at girls on the street. At the press of a button, the horn cried "Woo-woo...
...Here the Communists put on a drive to woo the formerly despised middle classes...
...raise money for some obscure and irrelevant fund, the girls of Simmons College last week auctioned off--sight unseen--dates with a Tufts man, an M.I.T. man for seven dollars, and the Harvard man--o woo of woes--sold for six dollars and fifty cents. The Simmons girls, showing feminine cunning much beyond their years, blamed the results on material circumstances. They said that they felt awkward about bidding for dates and when the Harvard man came up first, quite by chance, they were not very enthusiastic. Later on, as the bidding fever spread, prices shot skyhigh...
Some of them are willing to concede that, if he could be nominated, Stassen might run a better race than either Tom Dewey or Bob Taft. Among other things, he could, more than any other Republican, be counted on to woo away the votes of citizens who supported F.D.R. but do not like Harry Truman. But he has to be nominated first...
This prompted renewed efforts by the vulnerable cartel to woo Williamson. But he cold-shouldered them as he had all outside society, turned down offers to sell reportedly ranging from $20 to $80 million...