Word: bridesmaids
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...furtively round to make sure that he is about to use the right knife and fork." Edward FitzGerald, the reclusive translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, waved away a dubious bowl of pudding at his wedding breakfast with the exclamation, "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid!" Ireland is found "so melancholy, so full of the ghosts of feuds and famines, the clouds fly low, the trees sag under the incessant rain, and the very air seems charged and weighed down with a sense of grievance." An Alphabet of Literary Prejudice includes a list of names from...
After having played bridesmaid to Chris Evert throughout 1977, Martina Navratilova has taken advantage of Evert's self-imposed vacation from tournament play. She has seized the top spot on the women's circuit, earning the reputation as the "one to beat...
Despite an elegant and truly rhapsodical swing, MacDonald never won a major championship. He was "always the bridesmaid but never the bride." In the 1925 British Open he needed a final round of 78 to win, and staggered to an 82. In 1936 H.B. Martin wrote: "There is no more flagrant case of miscarried justice than in the story of MacDonald Smith, youngest of the Smith clan and the most brilliant...Dame Fate took a particular delight in mocking his genius, encouraging him with lesser prizes but always refusing his demand for stellar honors...
...bunker on the left side of the green and kicked to within six feet of the pin. Graham needed to hole out to drawn even with Green but his tentative putt was never on line. And so, for this season at least, Lou Graham will be remembered as "the bridesmaid but not the bride...
...Harvard varsity tennis team traveled to Amherst last weekend and managed to gain second place in the New England Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament. The Crimson played the bridesmaid to Yale but finished ahead of Dartmouth...