Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives the wife virtually the same civil status as the husband. It does not invalidate marriage contracts by which the bride can still sign away most of her rights, and say vexed French feminists: "With bridegrooms as hard to find as they are today, many brides will doubtless sign such contracts." Under the old law in France the magistrate performing the civil marriage has said: "The husband owes protection to his wife and the wife obedience to her husband." Under the new law the magistrate will say: "The husband is the head of the family...
...Fraenkel Cochran McCormick, 45, Polish-American opera singer, perfumer, feminist, whose four previous husbands had owned fortunes totaling $125,000,000; to Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...
...Royal Chamberlain handed the bride's father an envelope containing a check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...richest of reigning Kings, Farouk I was able to give his bride a three-strand diamond necklace gaped at by thousands at the Paris Exposition last summer under a $120,000 price tag. Other notable wedding presents...
...Going to Get Married! is a bustling, sensible little volume that tells brides what size sheets to buy (108 in. by 90 for a double bed), what furniture and what frame of mind are best suited for setting up housekeeping. Miss Wiley believes that one of the big troubles with marriage is the honeymoon. She draws a terrible picture of bride & groom rushing about getting ready for the wedding, buying things, getting nervous and exhausted and then having to start on a trip. "Where is the ecstasy?" she asks gloomily. "Where the bliss?" She also thinks that no bride should...