Her eye fell upon a handsome fellow, Michael Bakewell, who was big in drama circles and, better yet, hailed from a similar background to her own.
Castlemilk John had thought better and hailed a night bus home: he has never been traced, despite the subsequent urgency of police appeals.
Sunil Gavaskar, who held the record for most Test runs scored by an Indian before it was bettered by Tendulkar, hailed Sachin's 114 as one of his finest knocks.
We think we know better … transparency is hailed as the greatest good.
Mr Osborne hailed slightly better than expected growth figures, which suggest the economy will expand by 2.5% this year, rather than 2.4% and described his economic package as a "Budget for Britain - a comeback country".
Even as analysts hailed a better-than-expected jobs report on Friday that pointed to an acceleration in growth, they warned that stronger employment gains are being put at risk by sequestration, the automatic spending cuts being imposed by the federal government.
Mr Osborne hailed slightly better-than-expected growth figures, which suggest the economy will expand by 2.5% this year, and said the government had met its 2010 target to end this Parliament with Britain's national debt falling as a share of GDP.
Can he, like Pierce, be hailed for being better than the sum of his parts, and points?
When charter schools began opening in New York a decade ago, they were hailed as a better opportunity for children in poor neighborhoods, where failing schools had been the norm.
Anne's present success would tax anyone's good nature: her book Gulag (a history of the Soviet camps) is being hailed as magisterial, better than Solzhenitsyn.
