Word: bridesmaid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What's that old saying?" Hafferty asked. "Again, we're the bridesmaid instead of the bride. That's no consolation...
Harvard's all-time record in NCAA play is 7-18-1, with two second, two third, and five fourth-place ribbons. Those bridesmaid finishes came last season to Michigan State, and four years ago to Wisconsin...
...wedding and the preparations leading up to it, however, were as traditional as the bridegroom was atypical. So starved was the press for news that reporters zeroed in on arriving Cousin and Bridesmaid Sydney Lawford McKelvy in the Barnstable airport ladies' room and besieged her with questions as she changed her son's diaper. The mother of the bride was characteristically silent, but she did wave cheerily to onlookers when she arrived from her estate on Martha's Vineyard...
Hedda and her husband Jack accepted more than $10 million in revenue for their store last year, which includes a bridesmaids shop two blocks away to which customers are shuttled by limo. "The bridesmaid is such an underdog," Hedda explains. "We wanted to give her a psychological lift." Bridesmaids everywhere may be brooding over reports that the marriage rate for eligible women ages 15 to 44 has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded: for each 1,000 women, there are fewer than 100 weddings each year. Not even the Kleinfeld's limo can ride over a sobering stat like...
...Nixons were less amusing. When the White House decreed that reporters covering Julie Nixon's wedding reception had to stay outside and rely on briefings, Martin sneaked in by masquerading as a friend of a bridesmaid. She subsequently found herself banned from Tricia Nixon's wedding, but perhaps that was because she had written that Tricia dressed "like an ice-cream cone." The White House announcement explained that "the First Family does not feel comfortable with Judith Martin." Remarked Martin's husband: "I'm scared to live in a country that...