Word: bride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
...would be a good idea to sit through the even more venerable "The Bride Walks Out"; its completely dated gags and situations go far to point up the timelessness of the Barrie story. It is also interesting as a prematurely exhumed time-capsule of the early '30s, with their long skirts, rectangular automobiles, fifteen-cents-for-the-first-quarter-mile taxicabs, and an unwrinkled and suspiciously flat-chested Barbara Stanwyck making the inevitable Hollywood decision about Career vs. Home...
After seven weeks of marriage, Tyrone Power flew into London with his bride, former Starlet Linda Christian, who was quoted as burbling that the honeymoon was "just a dream" and that she was "just longing for a baby so I can call him Tyrone...
Alexis Smith became a bride...
...other stories are not outstanding. "Prima Donna," which concerns a bride's mother after her daughter's wedding, suffers from forced description and unconvincing characters, who appear not as persons but only names on a page. The meaning of Mrs. Laccy's rummaging through her daughter's packed wardrobe, apparently the crucial incident in the story, is not clear. If the mother is comparing her own marriage with that of her daughter, then the point should be made more forcefully...