Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elope without benefit of clergy, and the camera trails dutifully after them, pausing only for Technicolored glances at such tourist resorts as Positano and Amalfi. At long last, Lana's heart of gold rings true: she nobly sends her lover back to his roommate and his hand-wringing bride-to-be. Then, in the unmistakably Italo-American manner of Jimmy Durante, Lana walks off alone into the night, her head held high and going-as the synopsis puts it-"who knows where...
...Father of the Bride is back again...
...wanted to have a job of some kind, although he did not have to work. At times this was embarrassing to the comfortably situated Jenkins family. One crisis came when Grandfather John Canada Jenkins, a revenuer known to his friends as "Can," came to Tellico Plains with his second bride. Widowed in middle age, Can had written to seven matrimonial agencies, had wooed and won a mail-order bride from Kentucky, and planned to bring her to Tellico Plains on the Sunday morning ,train. At the time, Ray was running a shoeshine stand in the town square where...
...been "A grump for years" and long resisted his wife's urging to make one of the retreats with her. But "when I finally agreed, it was amazing! I felt better almost immediately-long before we actually came up here." Said a rangy, baby-faced bridegroom to his bride: "Honey, I think we'll be going on quite a few of these...
...January of 1953, a Filipino girl studying social work under the exchange plan at a New England college, married an American citizen. The young bride applied for resident alien status, which usually accompanies marriage to a citizen. But in her case, it was not a matter of merely filling out forms; the girl, despite pregnancy, had to return to the Philippines at her own expense in order to qualify for residence. More simply, she had to go so she could stay...