Word: bride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bride and bridegroom subsequently wended their way through Anatclia to Angora, the capital. Everywhere they were acclaimed; especially did the bride meet with unhesitating approval. She accompanied her husband everywhere, even to the battle front where Turks were administering a knock-out to the Greeks. Her position and her prestige she used to further the cause of women, but in a land, traditionally conservative, she was not able to get them enfranchised. But her advocation of monogamy has to a great extent been effective. Nonetheless, despite laws allowing only one wife to a man, except in "unusual cases," experts...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-The old story of the young bride and the aged husband retold on a New England farm...
...long been an Ilongote custom for every bridegroom to present his bride with several heads, Christians preferred...
HERE COMES THE BRIDE-Irvin S. Cobb-Doran ($2.00). With the air of a man rolling a cigar in his mouth, savoring it, puffing, chewing the butt, spurting forth smooth smoke-curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge...
...only Florence Mills familiar to the public is Florence Mills, the darktown strutter, famed Negro cabaret dancer. This fact, disregarded by the composer of the Times inept headline, caused the well-informed readers to gag upon their three-minute eggs. The real bride was, they discovered, white...