Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the local Scillonian Club are feeling nervous about calling him "Harold" anymore. Returning from a twelve-day honeymoon on Marco Island, off Florida's west coast, and Nassau, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, made a politic assessment of the stewardship of his bride, Barbara Cavanagh Wagner, in the kitchen cabinet. "The fish wasn't bad," said the mayor, "but the roast needed a little more practice. And a little more flavor. I think she needs fur ther instruction." "Noel Coward once said that some women should be struck regularly, like a gong...
Nimble Thimbles. Rarely was there a bride without a dozen quilts packed in her hope chest. Before her wedding, her friends would gather in a quilting bee to make a friendship-album quilt in which each did a special, signed design. The art was not reserved completely for the distaff; one Charles Pratt of Philadelphia made 33 Biblical picture quilts, each composed of 30,000 half-inch squares. Still, bees buzzed mainly with the gossip of busy women clustered around the quilting frame, darting their threads to their chatter...
...Wagners will live in a duplex suite at Manhattan's Hotel Carlyle while apartment hunting, relegating the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion, to official use only, since they would have to move out when his term ends in December and, as Mrs. Wagner says, "Any bride wants to decorate her own home...
...campaign is gaining support. The East African Standard, largest paper in Nairobi, told its readers that bride prices, if not actually subversive to an emerging nation, are far too high. "No young girl can feel other than ashamed, in these times of personal freedom, to think she is sold by her parents to the highest bidder," the paper wrote. The president of Kenya's 50,000-member Women's Movement thinks the solution lies in government price ceilings. Suggested ceiling price...
...entirely, for despite its iniquities, it is the only form of marriage insurance in many African societies. Tribal laws dictate that if a marriage breaks up because of the wife's misdeeds, her husband gets his money back; if the fault is his, however, he can lose both bride and dowry. "The bride price amounts to peace of mind," says American-educated Grace Wagema, head of Kenya's Community Development Services. "Until we have a marriage law like the Europeans, it will continue to be the safest form of marriage." At a Y.W.C.A. conference in nearby Uganda...