Word: bride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilde's imagination was never "fired," but of all stimulants to its lucubration the Orient was most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants...
...Masked Bride. Another of those hideous paintings of Paris- Apaches and Manhattan millionaires and virtuous ladies-is provided for Mae Murray. She plays a feminine crook whom love lures away from the treacherous paths of wickedness...
...clubs. No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips to impound it for the court. These things are not of the future. For Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith have been "laid...
Married. Princess Bertha Cantacuzene, daughter of Prince and Princess Michael Cantacuzene, and great-granddaughter of General U. S. Grant, to one Bruce Smith of Louisville, at the home of the bride's grandmother, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, in Washington...
...fieldmarshal's uniform was promptly ordered for King Vittorio Emanuele. Thus militantly attired, he was scheduled to give the bride away at "a ceremony to be celebrated in strict solemnity in the private chapel of the royal castle at Racconigi. . . . The celebration will end . . . with a fireworks display...