Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monkeyshines vastly amusing and rewarded them liberally with gifts of precious salt, clothes and trinkets. But British officialdom took a much dimmer view of the tribesmen whose moral code held that every young man should cut off at least one human head before he was fit to claim a bride. When, as they often did, the Dafias went on the rampage, looting, burning, raping and slicing off neighboring villagers' heads with one stroke of their razor-sharp daos (short swords), the British did not hesitate to discourage them with the full force of arms, even to the extent...
Rita Hayworth, the fourth bride of Crooner Dick Haymes, was not quite right when she cried that her fourth groom was being "torn apart and crucified." Actually, like a sinewy Thanksgiving turkey, Dick was just being carved many ways. His second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, collected $2,650 for overdue support of their three children, claimed that Dick owed her $29,087 more. Internal revenuers were grabbing half of Dick's salary for unpaid income taxes; his agent continued to get the customary 10% slice; his creditors were cut in for their regular 20%. Dick was reported...
...Skelton, the hero, is a rewrite man on a small magazine in Manhattan. Though sure of neither himself nor his job, he is happy with his bride in their cozy little flat. Then baby comes, and his wife (Jean Hagen) begs Red to find a place outside the city. In the end, of course, she finds the place herself and carries him bodily across the mortgage threshold...
Before the Capitol in Washington, Texas Rancher Eugene M. Biggers presented Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his bride with small tokens of some 2,000 Texans' affection: a $6,000 air-conditioned Cadillac and a certificate from Texas Governor Allan Shivers saluting "a real American [who] is now officially a Texan." Said the Senator: "This is the first car I've driven under my own title that was completely paid...
...betrothals of all potential heirs to the British throne. On Jan. 9, 1938, two years after Frederika left school, she and Prince Paul were married by the Archbishop of Athens. Some 60 representatives of Europe's royal houses stood by to see the Crown Prince carry his bride off to his brother's palace in a golden coach...