Word: bridal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed two German officers headed along to our prison stockade, passed a column of young dandies on bicycles, a young Italian bridal couple, the bride trim and shapely in a grey suit adorned by a bright nosegay...
...bridal suite of Moscow's National Hotel last week, burly, beaming Father Stanislaus Orlemanski put his extra rabats into his suitcase, made ready to return to the U.S. and his Polish-American parishioners at Springfield, Mass.* But first, as a volunteer Polish-Catholic emissary to the U.S.S.R., he had several things to do. Back to the Kremlin he went for a second two-hour talk with Joseph Stalin and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. They were, he said, "two great men." The talks, he said, produced "results beyond my expectations...
When U.S. newsmen trudged into Father Orlemanski's special "bridal suite" at the National Hotel, he joked, slapped backs, talked cautiously of his mission and his Kremlin interview: "Stalin wants a free, independent and democratic Poland." When he saw the photograph, he said: "This will make a rumpus in America, eh?" Patently hungry for all the publicity he could get, he impressed one correspondent as "a typical, tough Polish-American politician...
Johnny and Grover long ago learned to regard "Magnin" as a highly profitable name. Their mentor was their mother, peddler Isaac Magnin's wife Mary Ann, who founded the business with her own handiwork (children's and bridal clothes) in 1876, and took an intense matriarchal interest in it until she died at 95 last December...
...earth began to shake. Great fissures gaped in the streets. Buildings cracked, crashed down on their screaming occupants. When the earth stopped shaking at last, nine-tenths of San Juan was destroyed. Broken pipelines flooded the streets with wine. Two couples being married were killed in church with their bridal parties. Latest casualty count: 3,500 killed, 10,000 wounded...