Word: brides
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...verses. More important, when the meaning of the Hebrew words was obscure, the N.E.B. construed new interpretations based on cognate words in other ancient Semitic languages, which are considered unacceptable by many experts. The results can be bewildering. In the opening of the Song of Solomon, the bride wishes to find her love so that "I may not be left picking lice." In the King James she asks, "Why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?" American audiences sometimes quibble at word choices (felloe, stook, distrain) and find the Englishness of the text...
...willing to give away the idea to any publisher who would hire him as editor, but fortunately for him every one he wrote to turned him down flat. One person who encouraged him was his bride, Lila Bell Acheson, now 91, the sister of a Macalester classmate. "I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea," she later recalled. They mailed out thousands of subscription appeals just before their wedding. When they returned from their honeymoon to Greenwich Village in Manhattan there were 1,500 responses...
...marry your daughter? I have asked her, and very surprisingly she said yes.' " Spencer's reply: "I'm delighted for you both." Though later he joked: "I wonder what he would have said if I'd turned him down." The father of the bride could not contain his pride: "She is a giver, not a taker, and that is very rare these days. I think Charles is very lucky to have...
...wonder then that Prince Charles has known his future bride virtually all her life, or that she was literally the girl next door, at least for part of each year. Though the Spencers spend most of their time at Althorp, their magnificent 500-year-old home in Northamptonshire, for years they rented a large country home on the royal family's 20,000-acre Sandringham estate. It was there that Charles met Diana as a little girl. He regarded her, naturally, as the playmate of his younger brother Andrew, 21, and later chose to date...
...Paul. Everywhere, as if on cue, Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave to the Pope from a bamboo roadside chapel...