Word: bridal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every turn, express elevators that fly up like harnessed rockets and drop down like oiled meteors. Lounge rooms, gorgeously decorated, allure business-weary limbs with divans and sofas and curving love-chairs; while upstairs, opening upon corridors carpeted with rugs into which feet sink as into perfumed snow, bridal suites and grand suites and supersuites await their imminent occupants with tapestries of many various colors, and furniture beyond the dreams of Park Ave. All these, the gilt dining-rooms clotted with music, the cool oasis of the lobby, and the long line of brilliantly-lighted cages wherein clerks work busily...
Said the Foreign Secretary: "The boat was called 'The Orange Blossom,' and we were told that it had previously been used chiefly for bridal parties. . . . Our party was in honor of Mrs. Chamberlain's birthday. . . . But M. Briand remarked that we were also celebrating the coming marriage between peace and security. . . . Much progress was made in our negotiations during that trip. ... As night came on the skipper put back to Locarno, but we told him to cruise on for a while in the darkness. . . . Several vital points demanded a few hours more for discussion...
...Paris took Helen (and some of the furniture) against her will, but that she never went to Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...
...blows the uncle, and a denouement seems certain; but by a little discreet juggling Mary consents to play the game for a few minutes and the uncle takes her for the new member of the family. He immediately takes the bridal suite for the two on the Bermudan, sailing for the blessed isle of the onion, lily and bottled goods that evening. Things grow more and more strained, not to say tense, but the play goes on till a general showdown occurs on the deck of the ship and Mary decides that doctors aren't so bad; while her aunt...
...think she shunned the bridal...