Word: brides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shacked up with Mata Hari (obviously untrue, since 41-year-old Mata Hari was executed in 1917, a year before Ernest, then 18, got to Europe as an ambulance driver on the Italian front). On one occasion, Papa boasted drunkenly that he had sired a child by an African bride whom he had acquired on a safari (possibly true). What does ring completely true is Hemingway's comment in 1948 about Marlene Dietrich: "The thing about the Kraut and me is that we have been in love since 1934 . . . but we've never been to bed. Victims...
...bride's father had warned...
...poetically simple and sweet. Chapter shows a cheder, a Hebrew school full of students so serious that they are almost comic, a scene from a Yiddish play, a 1912 home movie of an Orthodox wedding looking for all the world like a series of moving Chagall lithographs of children, bride, groom and wedding guests...
...falling and getting hurt," she told a teammate at Méribel in the French Alps. Next morning while Christine and her fiancé, Team Trainer Jean Béranger, were studying the course, a vacationing Austrian lost control of her skis at 50 m.p.h. and plowed into the bride-to-be, breaking her right leg and ankle. Ah well, cracked Christine's sister Marielle, herself a slalom champion: "A white plaster cast won't go so badly with your wedding gown...
...fellowship officials to let him try something else, arguing that "it wasn't a very good time to be seeing the cathedral towns of England and I had seen them all anyway." He went instead to Cape Breton to study the Scot-Gaelic settlements there, and took his bride, a Bryn Mawr girl named Cambell, along on a honeymoon...