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Word: bride (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot is simple and pleasant enough, dealing, as so many seem to do nowadays, with the bootlegging industry. Jimmie Winters arrives at his Long Island home with his latest bride, having taken her as his wife on the chance that a divorce had already been granted to free him from a former matrimonial bond. Needless to say, the divorce had not been granted, as he learns by telegram soon after his arrival at his summer home. His latest wife, now not a wife in the eyes of the law, tears off to get her father and the shotgun...

Author: By G. P., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/9/1927 | See Source »

Married. Norma Shearer, 22, famed cinemactress; to Irving Grant Thalberg, 26, executive director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; in Hollywood. The ceremony was prolonged by the bride's unfamiliarity with responses in the Hebrew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...raised her heavy red eyebrows to the lace edging of her cap and commented with an arch grin: 'A bonny body. Well covered but not too plump. Slender, but not skinny. Meg's too plump. Pheasant's skinny. You're just right for a bride. Eh, my dear, but if I was a young man I'd like to sleep with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Sweet Adeline | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...even know that he was in England. Then it became known that the incognito monarch was much more interested in collecting butterflies for his remarkable collection in Sofia-a collection given to him by "Foxy" Ferdinand, onetime (1908-18) King of Bulgaria-than he was in discovering a royal bride. And next in his interests were motor cars and steam locomotives, of both of which he is an able driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Count Rilski Abroad | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

Married. William K. Vanderbilt II to Mrs. Rose Lancaster Warburton; in Paris; in ten minutes, by Mayor Rene Bloch. Said the mayor to the bride: "If you have children, I hope their eyes will be as blue as yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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