Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Snowballing Cult. Ian Fleming made this first excursion into adventure fiction "as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43." The bride was beautiful, Brunette Anne Geraldine, the recently divorced wife of Lord Rothermere, who had cited Fleming as corespondent...
Eight years ago, Seattle was so proud of Bobo that everyone from schoolchildren to tycoons chipped in to raise $4,000 to buy him a suitable bride. They settled for a dainty (350 lbs.), nubile (aged 11) enchantress, whose main aim in life is to reproduce. Bobo will hardly look...
...bride-bells searched me down...
...passion and life at full flood. The character is Hagar Shipley, who mixes past and present indiscriminately, telling now of her efforts to avoid the old ladies' home to which her son wishes to send her, now of the life she led as a girl and a young bride at a bleak crossroads town on the Canadian prairie, now of the small, ugly ways in which her body, at 90, has betrayed her. As she daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing-and the most touching-portraits of an unregenerate sinner...
...Lincoln Continental. But 100 m.p.h. can be hard on the heart, and an April cardiac seizure made Peter feel like a very old man, so the wheel has come full cycle, and it's back to puberty down an English country lane for the convalescent comedian and his bride Britt Eklund...