Word: bride
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baroness Leontine Puttkammer, was arrested in Vienna. She was accused of having put arsenic in her husband's coffee. Dr. Adolph Gessmann, President of the Vienna Credit Bank, found that his new bride, descendant of the Iron Chancellor, was a manhater. She left him shortly after her marriage, on the ground that she did not like men. Persuaded to return, she poisoned Dr. Gessmann the first evening after their reunion...
...which their doctor adopts, and they agree to take care of. The second act occurs twenty years later. The foundling has grown to womanhood, and the sisters are preparing her trousseau, for she has fallen in love with Antonio, an architect, and the wedding is imminent. Antonio and his bride go away leaving the nuns, especially Sister Joanna of the Cross--who has acted as a mother to the girl--plunged in deepest gloom...
...Joseph Hergesheimer's novel carries out with simple but concrete symbolism the very quality of wild oranges-bitter sweet to the first taste, growing more zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves...
...Groom, Bride...
Celebration. Japan rejoiced, but, due to the quake, postponed official public celebration until later in the year. Then a great banquet to officials and foreign diplomats will tell the people and foreign governments that Hirohito has the bride of his choice and that Japan has an Empress-Prospective...