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Word: fiancees (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roman Catholics wishing to be wed in Wisconsin have had to undergo a premarriage preparation period similar to the one required for residents of Phoenix. I have recently completed the "premarital inventory" with my fiance. We are 25 years old and have dated for 3½ years, and the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

The plot is typical Gilbert and Sullivan--complex, nonsensical, and irrelevant. The princess of the title flees her palace to avoid marrying a prince pre-chosen for her. She establishes a school for young ladies, dedicated to the disliking of men. The school is literally shut away from male society...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: King Arthur in the Union | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Written late in Shaw's career, Heartbreak House unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. It opens almost like an Agatha Christie murder mystery: a young girl, accompanied her fiance and father, comes to a strange country house, invited by a woman she doesn't know all that well...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: King Arthur in the Union | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

As the afternoon wears on, the clan bitches it up, a diatribe here, a confessional secret there, a bilious distillation from atrabilious people. Andrea hates Annie because Daddy loved her more. Five marriages have not appeased her sense of loss. Out of vengeance or whim she has carried on an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Cornfessional | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

A young girl may hot, even with her fiance, lunch in a road house without a chaperon, or go on a journey that can by any possibility last over night. To go out with him in a small sailboat sounds harmless enough, but might result in a questionable situation if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: According to Emily (1922) | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

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