Word: brides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rich's exchanged hundreds of pairs of defective nylons of a brand it did not stock. A clerk at a rival store, according to a popular Atlanta story, was arrested for buying merchandise on an employee discount and exchanging it at Rich's at full price. A bride's mother who complained that a Rich's wedding cake came with yellow layers instead of the white she had ordered got another cake, even though her guests had already consumed the first. Not surprisingly, Rich's return rate is 14% of sales, the highest...
Back to Roots. In the summer of 1949, Lowell married again. The bride, another writer, was Kentuckian Elizabeth Hardwick, who is now an editor of the New York Review of Books. That year he taught at Iowa State University. They spent most of the next three years in Europe, where Lowell plunged into a temporary gambling fling at Monte Carlo. After his mother's death in 1954, he took his wife to Boston and, with his inheritance, bought a big, comfortable town house in Back Bay. "The idea," says a friend, "was to recapture some roots. It was their...
Like Moses, Douglas leads the way but never settles in the promised land. Thirty miles from it, as he descends by rope from a cliff, the widowed bride coldly cuts the cord and he plummets to the rocks below. A wooden slab marks his resting place, and the troupe troops on to Oregon...
...knows, five years before Edward became king, he had danced with a divorced American woman, Bessie Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson, and lost his heart. Only 326 days after he ascended the throne, Edward VIII gave it up for "the woman I love," married her and remanded himself and his bride to exiled history as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...
...Road. In rural England, a husband and wife gaze out of their sports car at a bride and groom emerging from a church. She sighs: "They don't look very happy." He snaps: "Why should they? They just got married...