Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines as the hapless parent in a skilled version of the Edward Streeter comic bestseller (TIME...
While his Scots friends are deviling the English on the border, Pierre lands in Cornwall and tries to dethrone Tudor King Henry VII. With Pierre comes his lovely bride, Catherine Gordon, a granddaughter of James I of Scotland. But, in the crucial battle, Pierre falters when he sees that the stolid English really prefer Tudor stability to York dash...
Father of the Bride. Spencer Tracy shines as the hapless parent in a skilled version of the Edward Streeter comic bestseller (TIME...
...BACKWARD BRIDE (180 pp.)-Aubrey Menen-Scribner...
South-Southeast. Half-Indian, half-Irish Author Menen's little parable is fair sport as far as it goes, but it is a comedown from his witty and pointed satirical novel about the British in India, The Prevalence of Witches (1948). The Backward Bride seems meant to be profound in a Shavian way when it is not trying to be like Norman Douglas' South Wind. It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom. The professor is somewhere south-southeast of Philosopher Bertrand Russell...