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Word: bridesmaids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty odd years of frustrated desire Waiting for senior men to retire. Assistant, adviser, consultant and guide. Always the bridesmaid-Never the Bride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Always the Bridesmaid | 8/23/1954 | See Source »

...time, and lost only three matches in both positions. His doubles partner, Don Bossart, did even better playing sixth singles; Bossart lost only one doubles and one singles match all year, both to tennis-loaded Princeton. Barnaby now knows how swimming coach Hal Ulen feels about always being bridesmaid to the best team in the East...

Author: By Jere Broh-kahn, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 5/22/1952 | See Source »

That year the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League was formed, and Kiphuth's Yale swimmers started competing in it. Since then Harvard has played bridesmaid more often than either Fred Wilt...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/6/1952 | See Source »

...audience was her true love, and it began to look as if this too-young bridesmaid of the Met was never to be a bride. The next two seasons, she sang Juliette in a voice that glittered in the coloratura passages but was thin and forced in the big dramatic moments. Her first Lakmé, the classic role for coloraturas, was capable but uninspired, and left most listeners wishing for Lily Pons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soprano from Spokane | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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