Word: wooings
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...Woo! Woo! In Stoneham, Mass., Basil Tasker, 47, father of three and jobless since Christmas because he had to stay home with the kiddies, went wooing through the advertising columns, soon had 50 applicants for his hand...
...Announcer Edwards never does. Since he thought up the show in 1940, he has made participants ride camels, wash elephants, woo seals, wiggle into girdles onstage. Only victim to renege on a "consequence" was a rabid Brooklyn fan who couldn't bring himself to make a speech vilifying the Dodgers...
...that day when a woman upset the staid order of affairs and sent the undergraduates into an uproar. There have been few more boisterous hours in Harvard's history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie Nation made a whirlwind campaign to woo the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where...
...Jews is expressed in phobic language suggestive of Nazi Julius Streicher's obscene anti-Jewish paper, Der Stürmer. Hechtic sample: Anti-Semites are "Spiritual harelips, tormented homosexuals, lonely sadists . . . bile peddlers . . . invalids whose . . . bladders drip and whose hearts are a sackful of worms . . . religious zanies who woo God by spitting in His eye . . . mincing and bepimpled, clapper-tongued and swivel-brained . . . lame ducks...
...Witnesses. Landis listened to Cox's ready denial, but went on with his investigation. Harris' friends joyfully cooperated; some hinted that the bets were not all small and not all on the Phillies. One tried to woo from Cox's secretary a little black book of her boss's betting records...