Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Result was that customers popped up who had never been inside the Metropolitan before. Though the Company's headline singers were gone for the summer, there was a Carmen complete with horses, a Rigoletto and a sprightly new English version of Smetana's Bartered Bride...
...example, when the Iceland fishermen of Britanny are sailing about in the vast open sea, the movie chooses to show the running aground of the hero's ship and the specific reasons for his never returning to the arms of his bride. The novel, on the other hand, in dealing with the voyage strives above all to pass on a consciousness of the gloom, cold, and impenetrable unfriendliness of the northern waters. And when the great, bashful sailor does not return, his widow-bride is shown to be weeping all the time, instead of somehow conveying, as she does...
...When T. J. Lester and Daisy Bee Redfern get married, the whole neighborhood turns up to "bell the bride." The jollifications end for once with no bones broken...
...branch of that intricate family. Occasion was the marriage in Vienna last week of Infante Alphonse of Bourbon-Caserta, nephew of deposed Alfonso of Spain, to the Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma, niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into his emaciated aristocratic face suggested bigger...
...famed boy-explorer who has excited her professional jealousy. Amberton is equally ignorant that she is a cinemactress whom he dislikes because she has sponsored a musky perfume. A painful experience in Africa has so conditioned his reaction to musk that when, on their wedding night, his bride applies the sponsored product to her person, he forsakes...