Word: fianc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gear trouble; as it ground slowly across the Potomac, Irwin cursed impatiently, talked of his crimes, and threatened to kill "many people" if he was not obeyed. Finally he ordered a stop on a dirt road, and forced the girl to tape her fiancé's hands. Then Irwin raped her. Afterward, with a weird kind of reasonableness, he freed the boy, walked the pair to a gas station and bought them Cokes...
...embarrassingly precious dialogue. She calls Cotten a frog and wants to kiss his warts away; to him, she is "Princess Felicity" or "knucklehead." Her mental condition leads her to such fey adventures as spending the night in his bedroom (listening to him talk shop) and marrying him while her fiancé's back is turned...
...mere 2,500 people gathered in the square outside Farouk's suburban palace at Kubbeh one morning last week when Egypt's King finally made a Queen of the 17-year-old girl on whom his royal eyes fell over a year ago, when she was the fiancée of a civil servant (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950). The square was lined with mounted lancers and foot guards in immaculate white. Narriman Sadek was not present at the ceremony. Like all good Moslem brides, she waited at home while her uncle and her husband-to-be exchanged...
Death & Dandruff. Life about him soon began to match the misanthropic contours of his thought. Two days before his 16-year-old son Day was to marry, the boy's fiancée eloped with his best friend. When the newlyweds returned, the two boys whipped out revolvers and killed each other. In 1901, Bierce's second son died of pneumonia. Bierce, who later told H. L. Mencken he kept the ashes of one son in a cigar box, uttered a stoic "nothing matters," but weeks passed before he could write a line. When few bought his collected...
After war jitters had caused Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, to discourage presents and cancel plans for lavish wedding parties this week, his fiancée, Soraya Esfandiari, recovering from typhoid, came down with the grippe and the wedding itself was postponed for a month...