Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Francis Spring Rice, Lord Monteagle of Brandon, 82; and Mrs. Julia Emma Isobella FitzGerald Spring Rice, 81, sister of his deceased first wife; in a London Registry Office at which the bride, her thigh lately fractured, arrived in a wheel chair...
Governor Alf Landon clutched the bouquet to his bosom where he was already holding one tossed that morning from California (see below). But the Republican enemies of Republicans Curtis and Landon could not let the ceremony pass. Was it, they asked, a bouquet from a bride or a skunk cabbage from a scullery maid? What right had Charles Curtis to speak for Kansas? What right had he to propose a candidate for President? By way of answer, they produced a note written by Mr. Curtis to the tax assessor of Shawnee County, Kans. giving notice that he had transferred...
...breast of Charles Curtis, who ran unsuccessfully for re-election as Vice President in 1932, all hope of recovering political prestige is not dead. Last week he allowed his hope of playing a part in 1936 to get the better of him. Like a bride throwing her bouquet, he took careful aim and tossed his Presidential endorsement over the heads of other Republican hopefuls to a man from his native State...
...automobiles, Faris was terribly wounded with two bullets in his breast. Carl Raswan wanted to take him to Damascus to a French surgeon, but the dying man demanded to be taken directly to Tuema. They were married the next night. In the morning relatives found the bridegroom dead, the bride unconscious...
...Florence Nightingale. When Shidzué, at 18, was married, she found that her husband was far more deeply dissatisfied with feudal customs and restraints than she had been. Head of a wealthy and powerful family, a Christian humanist, young Baron Ishimoto became a mining engineer, took his inexperienced bride to the grimy coal fields of western Japan. There they lived for two and a half years on an equal footing with other employes, housed in a miserable thatched hut, on the Baron's salary of $25 per month. Shidzué saw a gas explosion, went into the dangerous mines...