Word: fianc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learned to dance in college, then psychoanalyzed himself to find out what he really wanted, discovered that he wanted to be a psychiatrist. He made a success of his profession, built up a pretty practice among the maladjusted skeet-shooting set. When his friend Stephen (Ralph Bellamy) brings his fiancée (Ginger Rogers) to be psychoanalyzed, it turns out that she knows how to dance too. From then on Stephen never has a chance...
...English construction engineer in Iraq named Brooks, Helen went along. We Married an Englishman, a much more proper book than it sounds, is their good-humored, comically illustrated account of the two years they spent in a tiny village 300 miles south of Bagdad, where Ruth's fiancé was building an air base...
...captain can legally perform wedding ceremonies outside the three-mile limit. From Los Angeles Eduard I. von Glatte flew his fiancée, Jane Webster, three miles up into the air, got the airliner's Captain Richard Bowman to marry them while Mrs. Bowman and her five children witnessed. After they had flown to Michigan for a honeymoon, they were informed that Los Angeles authorities did not consider the wedding legal. The quasi-newlyweds returned to California, decided to bring suit to prove that an air marriage was as good as a sea marriage...
...property to get onto 47th Street. When dapper little Frank Howell Jr. started Mae's Dress Shoppe, he was forced to pay six-and-a-half months' rent in advance. This smoldered in Negro Howell's breast and continued to as he prospered. After Marva Trotter, fiancée of Prizefighter Joe Louis, bought her trousseau from Frank Howell, four other Mae's Dress Shoppes were started by rivals eager to cash in on the publicity; but Frank Howell's Original Mae's Dress Shoppe is today the biggest and most fashionable in Bronzeville...
...London end. "They've done it!" shouted the bartender. No explanation was needed for the pub's regular customers. "They" meant the owner of the Plow, plain-featured, 35-year-old Ishbel Allen MacDonald, daughter of the late longtime Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, and her fiancé of two weeks, sandy-haired, 35-year-old Norman Ridgley, village handy man. The telephone call meant they had been quietly married...