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...Reno with her handsome new Danish husband sped Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow. Late that night they drove into San Francisco, put up in the bridal suite of a hotel. Next morning the Count handed newshawks typewritten slips of paper setting forth that his first name was "Court-not Curt or Kurt." He announced that he was paying off Manhattan newshawks with whom he made solemn $25 bets that he would not be married within a year. Meanwhile Barbara's father, Franklyn Laws Hutton, had followed in his private railroad car the Curleyhut. After three days of shopping...
...been supposed to add zest to a wooer's conquest . . . but the Sultan was too mighty to fight for his prize. . . . The slave maiden was allowed a scanty choice of fascinating devices. However beautiful she might be, the three silent obeisances that she made as she entered the bridal chamber could not bewitch the master's senses by their eloquence- for the most part he did not notice them, for he was already...
Author Pratt subtitles his book "an informal history." Written with a colloquial enthusiasm that will not recommend it to more academic historians, Ordeal by Fire has no theory to grind, parades its swift narrative of the war years in a series of graphic scenes. It opens in the dingy bridal suite of a Philadelphia hotel in February 1861, with Lincoln, the President-elect, listening to Detective Pinkerton's warnings of the plot to assassinate him as he passes through Baltimore next day. The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes...
...became the kept man of a noble lady. Paprika finally went after him, surviving many a love bout by the way. Just as she was about to declare her love to Rogi her insatiable vanity got the better of her. and she married a dashing officer. On her bridal night Rogi cut her husband's throat and carried her off. They were pursued; escape was hopeless; shots cracked. . . . Realism triumphed over Hollywood...
...Joined the nation in a chorus of cluck-clucking amazement when it was discovered that the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, onetime engine greaser, now Secretary of State for the Dominions, had signed above King George and Queen Mary on the bridal register of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...