Word: woos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just as trying. Willie Baxter's puppy passion for Lola Pratt, the Baby Talk Lady, who is "almost a divorced woman," and his adolescent antics are as funny today as when they were written. High spots are still Willie's drastic expedients to get pocket money to woo heartless, flirtatious Lola in style, his stratagems to purloin his father's dress suit, his difficulties with a used-car shark, his running feud with his snoopy, roller-skating little sister (Norma Nelson), his desperate moon-calfing and the beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning...
...woo Turkey into military alliance, Great Britain promised, among other things, to buy 20,000,000 Ibs. of Turkish tobacco per year for 20 years. In January Britain officially prohibited further purchases of U. S. tobacco...
There are 16 bells, ranging from a metal monster of 13 tons to a woo rascal mere pounds. There should be 17 to fill up the set in the true Russian manner, but the fourth from the largest was found before their installation to be in a different key from the others, or a one inhabitant of the House put it, "even more out of key than the others," and so it was sent across the river to the Business School, where it now rings for the end of classes...