Word: bride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Poor Mrs. Ann Meyer with her oven-roasted chuck [TIME, Aug. 30]. I can sympathize. As a bride I once tried to fry a hen which was intended for fricassee. If Mrs. Meyer will learn to braise and potroast, she will enjoy many delicious roasts, stews, Swiss steaks...
Married. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 20, brunette medical-student granddaughter of T.R.; and Alexander G. Barmine, ex-Soviet general turned anti-Communist author (One Who Survived); she for the first time, he for the third; in Northport, N.Y., at a wedding unattended by the bride's parents...
Mine Own Executioner (20th Century-Fox) is the story of a London lay psychiatrist (Burgess Meredith) who takes on a tougher case than he's sure he ought to handle. Somewhere between neurosis and insanity, a young veteran (Kieron Moore) has tried to strangle his bride. Before the psychiatrist can uncover the root of the trouble, the young man shoots his wife and kills himself...
...editor's bride is a born troublemaker. At her earliest opportunity she makes a pass at Wilde and never afterward forgives him for not tumbling. She high-pressures her guileless husband into a political career and into sabotaging his old friend's political prospects. She unearths and exploits the Wilde-Baxter love affair. She is clearly not the kind of woman who is useful around any town, and in the long run people find her out. After that, they live, more or less happily, ever after...
Walls of Jericho (20th Century-Fox) is a protracted and generally unrewarding study of life in a Kansas county seat during the Teddy Roosevelt era. The principals: a politically hopeful lawyer (Cornel Wilde); his drunken wife (Ann Dvorak); Lawyer Wilde's newspaper editor friend (Kirk Douglas); his sumptuous bride (Linda Darnell); a young girl (Anne Baxter) who has secretly worshipped Lawyer Wilde from her pigtail days...