Word: bridal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...marriage of the child princess of Jerusalem to a young knight. Outside, the siege engines of a Moslem army hurled huge stones against the walls, and periodically, the guests left the banquet hall to fight for their lives on Kerak's battlements. Only the tower in which the bridal pair was staying was not touched by the enemy fire, on orders of the chivalrous Moslem commander, Saladin...
...Sein, what then would become of Than? In Buddhist Burma, where polygamy is legal (although wives are usually taken one at a time), these things are more readily solved than elsewhere. Sein had a talk with Thein; Than had a talk with San. Last week, in a bridal ceremony during which, clad in a pink sarong, he sat on a carpet with his betrothed, Bridegroom Thein took both Than and San to be his lawful wedded wives...
...Paris gown and a bridal veil that had once belonged to the Empress Maria Theresa, 26-year-old Princess Regina of Saxe -Meiningen - Hildburghausen walked slowly up the aisle under an arch of crossed swords, to take her place beside pale, 38-year-old Franz Joseph Otto Robert Marie Anthony Charles Maximilian Henry Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Louis Cajetanus Pius Ignatius, Emperor (by theoretical title) of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem, Margrave of Moravia, Grand Voivode of Serbia, Duke of Lorraine and Auschwitz, Lord of Trieste, etc., etc. On the pretender's shoulders lay the jewel-studded...
Texas. As one who has paid out $1,500 for gifts she is not herself eligible to receive - Mother's Day, bridal, baby, wedding and anniversary presents - Miss Dorothy Babb, an instructor at North Texas State College, felt that there should be a National Old Maids' Day. Many spinsters, she pointed out, don't even get birthday gifts, so eager are they to avoid the subject...
...stage in history, when everyone must determine between the fundamentals of democracy and dictatorship, we've got to drop the comparatively shallow discriminations that once seemed important." Outside the Labor Party, Britons were not so pleased. Said one Tory: "It's no use Labor putting on the bridal gown for the Americans-they won't be fooled by that...