Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generally known until the publication in 1947 of letters about Ruskin's marriage to Effie Gray. The marriage, it seemed, had been arranged by Ruskin's and the girl's parents. According to Effie, on the wedding night Ruskin, who was 29, told his bride that sexual intercourse was irreligious and that, at 20, she was too young to consummate a marriage. She must wait five years, he said. She waited, showing "restiveness," which Ruskin said he feared was due to "incipient insanity." After six years the marriage was annulled "by reason of [Ruskin's] incurable...
...literally was the Music Corporation of America, run by Jules Stein, who is now the chairman of the board. Stein, who was then 40, offered Wasserman a position with MCA. "I think I'll take the job because there is a great future in it," Wasserman told his bride of six months. "What's so great about it?" she said. "Stein is an old man," said Wasserman...
...only period in her life when things were any less elegant than today. Certain facets, in fact, have not changed a whit: her servants have been with her for close to 25 years; her San Mateo home is the one she moved into as a bride; the French chateau the family visit every year has been theirs for a century. Mrs. de Guigne shops both here and abroad, finds European stores "more fun" but "has a ball" Christmas shopping in Macy's. Dior, Balenciaga and Saint Laurent are her best-loved designers, but her wardrobe is catholic enough...
Like the young bride always threatening to go home to Mother, Cambodia's neutralist Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk more or less survives on the international scene by constantly threatening to break off with somebody. Last week, as Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi dropped by for Cambodian independence-day ceremonies, Sihanouk affirmed what no one doubted-that he was perfectly capable of renouncing "our monarchic and nationalist regime to adopt the Communist regime." Next thing, Snookie warned Russia and Red China that unless his economic problems are solved, Cambodia might abandon these nations and "align itself with the very...
...sacred and profane." Says Steiger, who was raised a Lutheran: "I consider this part a regeneration" Why was Greece's King Constantine, 24, who as a bachelor did his bit for the scrapyards, driving so slowly along the twisting roads of Macedonia on a state tour with his bride of six weeks, Queen Anne-Marie? "We believe we are expecting a happy event," he explained-say along about next June...