Word: bride
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frogman Morgan wears a gold-plated .45 with a bullet ready in the chamber. Tommy-gun-carrying bodyguards follow him around. He and his Cuban bride live in a six-room apartment on Havana's waterfront Malecón drive. It has 18 bunks, where the frog-farm workers, who call him "William,'' sleep whenever they come to town. His U.S. citizenship was lifted for fighting in a foreign army, and he laments that he is "running out of countries." But he professes optimism about his future in Cuba, even though "Fidel and Raúl know...
Underneath a beaming picture of Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, the New York Daily News reported: LOVE IS CATCHING: QUEEN'S MOTHER AIMS TO BE BRIDE. The Queen Mother, 59, and a widow for eight years, said the News, may wed Sir Arthur Penn, a bachelor of 74. Sir Arthur is now treasurer of the Queen Mother's household as well as Queen Elizabeth II's extra equerry and groom in waiting. Next day, in Northern Rhodesia on a royal tour of Africa, Queen Mother Elizabeth made it abundantly plain that, whatever else...
...walk to the altar, reassuringly reminded his audience of "the comforting, tall, friendly and alert figure of the Duke of Edinburgh, on whose right arm she can rely." He sifted the guests ("What a tower of strength Lady Churchill is"), spoke as the Voice of England when the bride's coach left the Abbey: "All of us wish, as she goes back through London, that her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peaceful...
Actions & Gestures. Like a lazy mocking mirror of human folly flow the canals of Venice. Novelist Pasinetti tellingly evokes "the bride of the sea," with its funereal gondolas, its swish of steps and voices and waves on marble landings, its wheeling pigeons under a volley of church bells. Pasinetti was born in his setting, is now a professor of Italian at the University of California at Los Angeles. He wrote his novel in Italian and then translated it into English on a tape recorder, a method that gives the book a convincing, though sometimes too pronounced, foreign accent...
...improvement in women's lot. One delegation complained that in Acholi a wife is treated "exactly like a goat," and asked plaintively: "Why should girls be educated when they will be treated like dogs after marriage?" Another argued that a husband should be prohibited from asking back his bride price if he rejects his wife after she has borne children for him. A resolution was passed recommending that husbands make clear their inheritance intentions by drawing up wills. But several delegates uneasily pointed out that this was a dangerous subject. A husband whose wife urged him to make...