Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington Post. The public subscribed money to buy him a house. Admiral Dewey specified what street he would like it on, adding that it should have "a small dining room capable of seating, say, 18 persons." He promptly deeded the people's gift to his new bride. In April 1900 foolish friends urged him to try for the Democratic nomination for President. After much thought he finally gave an exclusive interview to the New York World: ". . . It is the highest honor in the gift of this nation; what citizen would refuse it? "Since studying this subject I am convinced...
...FREE." During a cross-country vaudeville tour, E. Paul Lewis will offer free chances on himself to girls and women "between the ages of 16 and 50, of sound mind, good moral character and eligible to marry.'' At the end of a year he will draw his bride's name out of a hat, present her with himself and $5,000 which he hopes to earn on his tour. If he refuses to marry the winner he will pay her the $5,000 as damages, give additional profits to charity. E. Paul Lewis prepared for matrimony...
...learning, strangeness, loneliness," went around the world six times in tramp steamers, worked on a Colorado strawberry ranch, did airplane stunting in California, was maid to an opera singer, nearly starved in Japan, shot tigers in India and taught school in China, finished a novel (The Faraway Bride) in Nanking during a Cantonese bombardment. After her marriage twelve years ago to an Irishman in the Chinese customs service she lived mostly in China, where she turned up an astounding old Russian panhandler about whom she wrote her last book, Pull Devil, Pull Baker (TIME, July...
...When Father attends a wedding he has to be the bride; when he goes to a funeral he must be the corpse...
...House on 56th Street (Warner). The story of a Manhattan residence. built for a bride in 1905 and re-opened as a speakeasy and gambling den in 1933, could contain material for a first-rate picture. The story of The House on 56th Street fails to do it justice. It is a gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box. Peggy Van Tyle (Kay Francis) enters it first as the happy bride of a slick...