Word: trousseau
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...Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup, was sued for $30,000 by her ex-husband, Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzuej. She had promised to remarry him, he said, once she got her mother settled in a home of her own; so he bought a house for mama and a trousseau for Kay. Then, the day after they made a date to set the date, he read in a newspaper that she had just married Sugar Heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. (TIME,. Sept. 17). Macoco explained his suit: "It's the principle. ... I do not like being made a sucker...
...this may not have signified much more than a bride's beginning to buy her trousseau in expectation. A better indi cation may have been given by a seemingly platitudinous statement that pious, hard-hitting General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery gave to the press...
...that, everyone remembered details-how the pretty, sharp-featured Linda had clerked in a store, ushered in a cinema, shipped as hairdresser on Red Star liners; how Antonio had bought her a passage home instead of an engagement ring, how her sister had given her, as part of her trousseau, the yellow silk pajamas with the green dragon embroidered on the back...
...little oil; a minute quantity of fish and one egg. Only children have the right to milk. The people keep body and soul together with a little rice and vegetables. . . . "Brides can no longer include a tansu [wooden chest of drawers] and a mosquito net in their trousseau, but must be happy with two boxes of senko [incense] and a basket [bassinet...
...short synopsis is given by the HDC release. "Dena Rosita, the lovely heroine, promises to wait for her finance, who must go abroad. She waits, preparing her trousseau for an immediate wedding. She waits 20 years in vain, the whole town pities her. But Rosita, in a magnificent last act, reveals her secret life, the happiness she has had in dreaming...