Word: veil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carmen Franco y Polo, 23, only child of Dictator Francisco Franco, became the Marquesa de Villaverde in one of the flossiest weddings that Spain had seen in years. Wearing a Balenciaga faille gown, with a veil sweeping down from a diamond and pearl diadem, the willowy brunette bride marched up the aisle of the Royal Chapel, of El Pardo Palace to face Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, Roman Catholic Primate of Spain. Standing beside the Marqués, Cristobal Martinez Bordiu Ortega y Bascaran, 28, who wore the red-and-cream uniform of the Order of "the Holy Sepulchre, Carmen...
...mean enough, learns how to get along with high-strung Mrs. Merrill, and gladly forgoes her wages when Mr. Merrill is hit by the Depression. The high point of Debby's pathetic little life comes when she gets a chance to straighten Rebecca Merrill's veil just before her wedding, and happily follows the bride all the way to the altar...
Pleased last week with the first Institute on Judaism for Christian Teachers, Rabbi Brickner was even more pleased that Cleveland's Religious Education Fellowship will shortly reciprocate and start an Institute on Christianity for Jews. Says he: "Many Christians think of Judaism as lurking behind a silken veil . . . Judaism is a rational, logical faith and the more questions we are asked the better we like it ... Good will between religions can never be achieved simply by mutual back-patting . . . We're going to have to build bridges...
...year was 1914 and Monica Baldwin was 17 when she took the veil of a Roman Catholic religious order and vanished behind convent walls. Ten years later she began to think she had made a mistake. Nevertheless, for 18 years more of inward strain and stress she lived the life of the convent...