Word: wedding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose of the bill is to enable a spouse who has been frustrated by the jailing or shutting up of the other spouse in an insane asylum to cite this as grounds for divorce and eventually wed again. "This bill would launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot see the end!" cried the high church Marquess of Salisbury. "There is not even any definition in this bill of either 'desertion' or 'incurable insanity' " although it would make them grounds for divorce, and the Marquess went on in his opposition...
...Philippine Commonwealth: and Jean Marie Faircloth, 38, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., daughter of a Nashville flour miller, whom he met in Manila in 1935; in Manhattan's City Hall. His first wife, who divorced him in 1929, was Louise Cromwell Brooks, stepdaughter of Financier Edward Townsend Stotesbury, now wed to Actor Lionel Atwill...
Reputedly His Majesty is stipulating that Windsor must not wed sooner than ten days after the Coronation (May 12) and that the Duke & Mrs. Simpson must agree in writing not to act on stage, screen, radio programs or do memoirs or press articles...
...been Austria's Emperor since he was 18. Now he was 23, and his managing mother Sophie thought it high time for him to marry. Sophie and her sister Ludovika, an ambitious German duchess, put their heads together, agreed that young Franz could do much worse than wed Ludovika's eldest daughter, Helen. In the ensuing royal houseparty to bring the nervous pair together, this well-laid plan went sadly agley. Helen was mightily pleased with Franzi, but Franzi had no eyes for anyone but Helen's younger sister, 15-year-old Sisi. Sisi was a tomboy...
...Good Earth's theme is the love of the Chinese peasant for his land and his dependence upon it. Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter...