Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bates was an old South America hand. A U.S. citizen by birth, she went to Chile and Bolivia as the bride of a British mining engineer. After he drifted out of the picture, she moved to Arequipa and started a guesthouse with a small garden. In time it grew into a long, rambling structure surrounded by a pleasant jungle of trellised roses, honeysuckle and bougainvillaea. She called it Quinta Bates, and ran it with an imperious hand; travelers came to esteem it as the finest boarding house in the Western Hemisphere...
...spite of rain, drew a glittering collection of guests: three kings, three queens, a grand duchess, an archduke, 22 princes, 18 princesses, and assorted lesser nobility. Royal feathers were momentarily ruffled when Princess de Rethy, commoner wife of Belgium's abdicated King Leopold III (father of the bride), got uncommonly close to the head of the procession. But a good time seemed to be had by the 100,000 soggy Luxembourgers and tourists who goggled, cheered and shot off skyrockets...
...weather, year-round pastime which calls for old clothes, field glasses and an abundant knowledge of bird lore. They know, for instance, that a robin sings, not because he is happy, but because he has just staked out a claim to a clump of trees or a bride, and his song is a chirp-on-shoulder challenge to the rest of the robin community...
...Gwilym] Price was interesting. Betty Furness and her sales work intrigued me. One of the new items which causes her to act "as though she never heard of that old-fashioned knickknack she had plugged just the week before." is "a range which will preserve even week the newest bride from cooking disasters." I am getting married out here in June (bride also a missionary), but I'm afraid this newest item would be of little value . . . some of Betty's old, forgotten items would be of more use here. Does she happen to remember that there...
Young Love. In Ahmadabad, India, police stopped a marriage contract ceremony in a nearby village, told the parents of the one-year-old groom and the nine-month-old bride not to be in such a hurry...