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Word: weds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clamoring for a ''holy war" to rescue divine Helen from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, is lured to Aulis in the belief that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days, his son Orestes is a curly moppet, his daughter Electra (Joanna Roos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...plumbed the depths of all human emotion. "How far the little candle sends its beams, so shines a good deed in a naughty world", and it is in this spirit that we are given two little pictures, one of the "Eugenics Baby" who has just wed, and one of F. D. R., God bless him, collecting stamps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...sons now aged 60 and 69. "The marriage," reported the Referee, "pursued the unruffled happiness of a rural England idyll till George was eighty-eight." Then his wife died. George, however, "felt that he had years ahead of him." At 90 he took a second fling at matrimony, wed a girl of 18. Now he has two more children, aged 2 and 5. Asked last week by the Referee if she was happy, Mrs. Skeet, "with a look of almost reverence in her eyes," said: "He is the most wonderful man in the world." Asked what he thought of modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Most Wonderful | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...manly Mr. Notman announced his intention to marry, was instantly fired, and last week seemed well on his way to become an heroic Captain Dreyfus of British banking as the Notman affair grew in notoriety and British bank guilds strove to get him back his job with right to wed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Character | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Lita Annenberg Howard, 26, daughter of Publisher Moses Louis Annenberg of Daily Racing Form, Miami Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer (TIME, Aug. 10); and Manhattan Lawyer Joseph Harrington Hazen, 38, assistant to Cinemagnate Harry Morris Warner; at Great Neck, N. Y. Simultaneously wed were her sister, Mrs. Enid Annenberg Bensinger, 29, and Ira Haupt, 47, Manhattan stockbroker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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