Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assassin's rusty knife; the skeleton of the horse that was killed by a bomb in Paris as he drove with President Loubet in 1905; bits of the other bomb that killed a dozen bystanders and soldiers on his wedding day, splattered himself and his bride with blood. There is also a revolver. That revolver was fired at him repeatedly by one Sanchez Alegre as Alfonso rode through the streets of Madrid. The King wheeled, rode the assassin down under his horse's hoofs with a shout...
...Marcia Vaiden. But the night before the wedding Drusilla eloped with Major Crowninshield, and Marcia was not sorry her wedding was postponed, because she too was really in love with the Major. Miltiades went grimly off to war and took orders from the man who had stolen his bride, until Crowninshield was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Polycarp and Augustus Vaiden were too young to go, but they did not think so. One night they climbed out of the window and ran away to enlist...
...nuptials came not only Their Britannic Majesties, but also King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, she arriving by air from Brussels. Just four years after the smartest bride & groom in England left the altar of the Chapel Royal, he entered the House of Commons as a Laborite (i. e., a Socialist). Five years later she did the same (TIME...
...beginning of their world tour (Jan. 20), was instructed to give them "special attention." He became Miss Semple's fiancé in Shanghai (Feb. 16). "It is a pure love match," said Evangelist McPherson, "I give it my blessing." Said Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, grandmother of the bride: "I got married when I was 15. Sister [Mrs. McPherson] went to the altar when she was 17, so Roberta, being 19, waited much longer than either...
...BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET-A new angle on Poet Robert Browning's father-in-law, with Katharine Cornell as the poet's bride...