Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself, Rocky seemed unworried about politics. Appearing as happy as his radiant bride, he took off for a honeymoon on his Monte Sacro ranch in Venezuela...
...bridal pair from Seaham to Halnaby, Byron's "countenance changed to gloom & defiance as soon as we got into the carriage. He began singing in a wild manner as he usually does when angry and scarcely spoke to me till we came near Durham." Later, added his bride, he said, "Now I have you in my power, and I could make you feel it." The poet, after balking at sharing a bed with her, started out of a restless sleep, caught sight of the glowing candle, and cried: "Good God, I am surely in hell...
Atrocious Crimes. Byron was 27, and his bride, the former Annabella Milbanke, had just turned 23; their marriage lasted not quite a year. Its failure has variously been attributed to Byron's incestuous relationship with his half sister Augusta Leigh, to his heavy drinking, his mental instability, his not-so-latent homosexuality, and even his sagging finances. Byron himself blamed it on his mother-in-law, who later changed her name from Milbanke to Noel. When Lady Noel recovered from a severe illness, Byron scribbled a note to his sister: "I will reserve my tears for the demise...
...made everybody happy," recalls a classmate). In December 1948, she married Dr. "Robin" Murphy in a big society wedding in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer called Happy "pulchritudinous," "superbly lovely" and noted that she wore a bridal gown "brought from Belgium by her great-great-grandmother and worn by every bride in the family since then...
...whose indoor hobby was cavorting with the Errol Flynn crowd. Charlene watched in wide-eyed wonder, but did not join in the fun. She went to Finch College in New York, where she won glowing good grades. At about the same time, her father was winning as a bride a California model named Jayne Larkin-only a few years older than Charlene...