Word: bride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...path of true love was rougher than a Bucharest trolley track. The groom had lost his country, his throne and his fortune to the Communists. The bride was losing the blessing of her church for marrying outside its dispensation, and the bride's parents stayed away. But in Athens last week,wearing borrowed Greek crowns, Orthodox Michael of Rumania and Catholic Anne of Bourbon-Parma were at long length married...
...Come, Good Bride." Michael and Anne spent the last few days before their wedding in leisure; one afternoon they watched the demonstration of a new British jet plane. "The only thing that took Michael's interest off Annie," remarked a courtier, "was that plane. The rest of the time they held hands...
...appointed day, in a ballroom of the royal palace, Archbishop Damaskinos, Primate and former Regent of Greece, lifted his jeweled cross for the groom and best man to kiss. Then the choir began the Orthodox hymn Devro Nymphi, Devro Nymphi-"Come bride! Come good bride, come pure bride, come, oh beautiful chaste bride...
...Christian Alexander, former Prince of Denmark. She wore a white satin damask dress and her suntanned, elfin face was haloed in billowing tulle. When the rings had been exchanged and the couple's crowns symbolically tied together, the Archbishop intoned: "With the help of God, dance!" and the bride & groom made three turns around a table. At this point, the couple should have been showered with rice; but rice is scarce. The gesture was omitted...
Puckered Bernarr Macfadden, 79, settled down at his Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, N.Y. for a delayed honeymoon with his blonde bride Jonnie, 42, who showed newsmen her current reading assignment: How to Attain and Practice the Perfect Sex Life. "I can't imagine anything more exciting than being married to Bernarr Macfadden," said...