Word: nuptial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accounts disagreed widely as to the reason of the nuptial cleavage. Some said that Mme. Kemal, ardent feminist, mixed in matters that did not concern her and was apt to treat her spouse with high-handed masterfulness. Other accounts said that the wife had found the husband unbearable, had decided to live with him no longer, had herself sought the divorce. Official statements discreetly said nothing. All that was definitely known was that about three weeks ago Mme. Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum...
...Desire is a nuptial scenario by Paul Claudel with music by the unbalanced Darius Milhaud. Its climax comes when a woman unwinds herself from some chiffon...
...LOVE WITH LOVE?Mid the choppy seas of comedy blown up by three males contesting for her favor, Lynn Fontanne moves serenely to her nuptial destination. Hers is quite the best individual performance of the early season...
...notable exception, aforementioned, was Mrs. Peggy Hopkins Joyce. Mrs. Joyce is not a vaudeville actress. Her stage is all the world. So many of her vagaries, nuptial and otherwise, have been chronicled in the daily bulletins that Mr. Carroll evinced an unerring flash of showmanship when he picked her for his orchid. He knew that she could neither sing nor dance. Yet the world derives a curious thrill from gazing at a woman of many marriages...
...Convention, tradition, anything intellectually respectable or time-tried becomes "old-fashioned" and accordingly hopelessly damned. Every engaged couple do not insist upon having their marriage ceremony performed in the New Jersey surf in non-sinkable diving suits; or even in radio-ized airplanes over New York City where the nuptial kiss may be heard in Niagara Falls. But that anyone should want to do so indicates how far the craze for "liberalism" in its newest sense extends...