Word: woos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lights in Tom's living room are lowered. A small table for two has been set intimately, with a small rosy lamp and a bottle of bubbly. Never has the siren been more seductive than now, when she tries to woo her husband out of his dark mood, a mood which is running to ironic quotations. "Waiter," he orders his butler, "waiter, another small bottle, please. Regan, dost thou know who made thee...
...April 23, 1928). John A. Hartford's brother's widow?Mrs. Edward V. Hartford?and her son George Huntington II got in the news last week. In Boston, a Miss Mildred King, pretty blonde, sued Mrs. Hartford for $100,000. Miss King said that she had been asked to woo George Huntington II, a Harvard sophomore, away from an unnamed Manhattan siren with whom he had become infatuated. In return, Miss King said that Mrs. Hartford had promised to make a settlement on her or adopt her. Miss King said she had fulfilled her part of the bargain. Mrs. Hartford...
...woo back public confidence in the police force, fortnight ago the Patrolmen's Benefit Association spent $30,000 publishing full-page spreads in 55 metropolitan and upstate papers, pleading that the entire department be not judged by the accused vice squad officers, "who still have their day in court...
Most incongruous feature of opera-of all arts the most, wooden-is to watch ponderous paunchy bravos woo and buss great overstuffed divas whilst golden notes soar sonorously. Last week, when John Forsell, onetime (1909-10) baritone with Manhattan's Metropolitan, now chief of Stockholm's Royal Opera House, ordered all his bulky singers to reduce, U. S. operagoers were grateful to him for articulating what had been often thought but seldom said. Fat Swedish stars protested, saying that bulk aids musical beauty and that they sing best when they are well fed. But the order remained...
...late great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered the actual germ of trachoma, contagious blinding eye disease. Drs. William Chris Fimioff and Phillips Thygeson of Denver reported to the Convention that the organism caused trachoma in monkeys. Remains to test it on a human. The test human may be Woo Dak-San, Silver City, N. Mex., Chinese sentenced to be executed for murder. To him last week was suggested a choice and to New Mexico's Governor R. C. Dillon was presented a plea-that the sentence be commuted to life imprisonment provided Woo Dak-San subject his eyes to infection...