Word: brides
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...weekly column in the London Sunday Dispatch, Britain's Professor Cyril E. M. Joad began by answering a simple question about the clothing of American children visiting England with the British war-bride mothers. But he soon dived into deeper issues: "[American fashions for children are] terrible, aren't they? Little boys of seven . . . dressed in check suits, long trousers, and blue trilby hats . . . cowboy suits . . . bobby socks ... violent tartans ... Poor little brutes! Eating their cake too early, they will get through it too quickly . . . It is precisely this too-early maturity in ... manners, customs, habits and dress...
...mayor of Alhambra (pop. 52,753), Calif, presented a big bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Nobuko Coronel, Filipino-Japanese war bride of a hometown veteran, to help convince her that she was welcome in the U.S. The greeting ceremony was arranged (and more than 70 citizens were moved to write letters of welcome) after a local citizen had sent her a note condemning her marriage to Corporal Robert A. Coronel and warning her that she was not wanted in Alhambra...
Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley and his 41-year-old British-born bride Dorothy May Kydd arrived in Europe aboard a U.S. Army transport plane for a combined good-will visit ("in the national interest." said the Defense Department) and a honeymoon trip. Among their first stops: Noordwijk-aan-Zee, The Netherlands, for the opening of the International Council of Christian Leadership. After they were saluted with a few bars of Here Comes the Bride, the 68-year-old Senator, filled with good will, beamed at the delegates and said, "There's life in the boy yet." Then...
...Roxy in New York and Lucille was between pictures in Hollywood. She flew in from the Coast; they got up at 5 a.m. and drove to Connecticut, where they were married by a justice of the peace. Since they had no apartment, Desi compromised by carrying his bride across the threshold of his dressing room at the Roxy. Hollywood offered odds that the marriage would not last six weeks...
From her villa on Capri, old Music-Hall Trouper Gracie Fields, a temporary victim of rheumatism and a bride of two months, announced that the British army had arranged for her to make an early summer singing tour of Korea. Would, her radio-tinkering husband Boris go along? Not likely, said Gracie, he is a stateless person without a passport. Besides, "he can't sing...