Word: brides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow him all around Paris, he desperately searches for a replacement for a rare Italian straw hat his horse has eaten. The hat's owner, a young woman named Anais, along with her lover, have encamped themselves in Fadinard's house, making it impossible for him to bring his bride Helene home. Exactly how Fadinard got into this mess is a complicated story you need not be bothered with now; his adventures in locating a new hat make up the crazy tale you can see at the Loeb...
...shower was two flights down, but at Paris' Hotel des Deux Continents last summer I first met my European wife. How did I find hotel and bride? Guided by Arthur Frommer's book! Even those who can afford Europe on $10 or $20 a day shouldn't travel without the Frommer. Fielding is for people over...
...week, pretty good money in the mid-1920s, he married his longtime sweetheart. Bent on settling in Chicago, he went on to the big city alone because he did not have enough money for her fare. As soon as he could get a railroad pass, he brought his bride to Chicago. For nine years Gilbert worked as a fireman on the Alton Railroad. In those days railroad firemen worked hard. In heat so intense that it once made his nose bleed, Gilbert sometimes shoveled as much as 20 tons of coal in the course of a 16-hour...
...heedless pleasure has long vanished. Keeping pace with latter-day psychology and sociology, man is seen now as a fellow who needs help himself. Writer Davis has a section titled "Calming the Groom's Fears." And Medical Columnist Dr. Walter Alvarez writes: "On the honeymoon, the bride may have to be the one who is kind and patient and understanding...
...major preoccupation is what Author Mary McCarthy has called "the tyranny of the orgasm." In contrast to the attitude of the 19th century lady who said, "I lie still and think of a new way to trim a hat," the unblushing bride of today, in the words of one case history, expects every night to be "like a Cape Canaveral countdown." Author Davis finds many modern husbands and wives harassed and unsettled by the notion that anything other than a mutual orgasm amounts to sexual failure. Writes she: "We have substituted new fears for old ones, new guilt for inherited...