Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Hearst among 250,000 other young men drawn by the California gold strike. He was one of the handful who struck it, and kept it, and multiplied it richly. With mule and pack horse he roamed hardily from Alaska to Mexico. He went back to Missouri for his bride, patrician Phoebe Apperson, descended from Carolina-Virginia stock. His mines, ranches, banks, race horses and friends were one of the greatest collection ever made even in old California. He also owned $7,500,000 worth of the Anaconda; his million acres in Mexico pastured 48,000 cattle; and he would...
...Comstock Lode on the side of Mt. Davidson at Virginia City, Nev., has always been a surprise package. Discovered in 1859, its glory holes enriched Sandy Bowers, an illiterate Missouri teamster, made his washerwoman bride, Eilly Orrum. Queen of the Comstock. Its abandoned workings, bought in 1872 for $100,000, in four years yielded $100,000,000 to its four new owners-Irishmen William S. O'Brien, James C. Flood, James G. Fair and John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold...
...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...
...Italian State Railway fare for a round-trip to Rome from any part of the kingdom. Last week Il Duce let the world know that his honeymoon rates have drawn 14.000 newly weds to Rome- 2,000 couples per month. Most of them call at the Vatican where each bride is given a rosary, each groom a medal...
...bony, faintly reptilian face has brooded through several recent Hollywood films. In Forsaking All Others, Miss Bankhead of Alabama is called upon to play the part of a young woman who is about to be married to her childhood sweetheart. Waiting nervously in an anteroom of the church, the bride-to-be exclaims that "she would really rather live in sin'' than go through with the marriage. Unexpectedly she is relieved of the necessity. Her groom jilts her for a dark, rapacious beauty he has met abroad. "Well," sardonically observes Actress Bankhead, "anyhow, Jesus loves me." The indecisive...