Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiki (Alexander Markey) belongs to that class of films which theatre managers advertise with lobby displays of excelsior and old straw, to represent South Sea Island residences. The cast contains The Virgin Bride, Her Lover and Her Father, all performed by natives. There is a volcano in the background. The dialog is entirely unintelligible...
...Early next spring, Mrs. Grace Coolidge will say farewell to her native New England to become the bride of Calvin Coolidge's onetime White House secretary, Everett Sanders."-New York Daily News. Said Son John Coolidge: "It's a phoney. . . . There won't be any such marriage...
...house shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna Roosevelt Dall, 28. Justice Frederic Kernochan, friend and fishing companion of the President, performed the ceremony. It was hardly over when the telephone rang and Father Roosevelt gave his congratulations to bride & groom. Fifteen minutes later the President's daughter was speeding away, her heart aflutter, in John Boettiger's automobile...
Once all Jewish marriages were arranged by parents. Actual negotiations, including the all-important dowry provided by the bride's family, were handled by shadchonim-marriage brokers. Today only old-fashioned Orthodox Jews patronize the shadchen. Simplified by the emancipation of Jewish youth, his job consists in bringing together couples in a marrying mood, taking a commission (usually 5%) on the dowry...
...soon up to their old tricks, insulting the proprietors of roadside restaurants, wrecking Rolls-Royce roadsters and imposing on their friends. When they spend a night together, Dill further establishes his character as a sophisticate by catching cold, getting burned and sleeping alone on a downstairs sofa. His bride divorces him and he is on the point of settling down with Mary after all, when she discovers she is wrong again. Jeff Williams is the man she loves. They go off to Spain together, leaving Dill puzzled on the pier...