Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy peasantry, as gay in their slightly frayed folk costumes as a Shubert chorus, swarmed about Nancy's little Church of the Cordeliers. Who, for the moment, wanted to remember that the Emperor who was to be married there had no empire, that he had met his bride in a refugee camp, and that her father had died a prisoner of the Communists? The considerate Nancy town council had even ordered the very French comfort stations removed from the public square, to avoid any possible offense to royalty...
When the formalities were over, buglers let go with a blast, and a cannon began booming a salute to drown out all other salutes: 101 guns. The King and his guests, all male, enjoyed a wedding reception (still without benefit of bride). At Narriman's home, 2½ miles to the north, a smaller crowd kept its eyes fixed on the drawn blinds behind which the new Queen awaited her lord's summors. Close to sunset, Narriman, resplendent in Paris-styled white satin, finally emerged on the arm of the King's eldest sister Fawzia and entered...
More than 1,000 followers with gold-embossed invitations to "The Marriage Feast of the Lamb" arrived in Philadelphia to help Father Divine, the self-proclaimed deity, celebrate the fifth anniversary of his wedding to Canadian-born Edna Rose Ritchings, whom he still proudly calls his "white, spotless virgin bride." For two days the "heavenly guests" shouted and sang as they waited a turn at the huge banquet table lighted with a neon sign: "God's Holy Communion Table of Unity Mission...
Father's Little Dividend. In a lively sequel to the original Spencer Tracy-Joan Bennett-Elizabeth Taylor comedy, the Father of the Bride suffers through the ordeal of becoming a grandfather (TIME, April...
Father's Little Dividend. In a lively sequel to the original Spencer Tracy-Elizabeth Taylor comedy, the Father of the Bride suffers through the ordeal of becoming a grandfather (TIME, April...