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Word: weds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark lady was a married woman who broke her bed vow (Sormet 152), but Mary Fitton was single when she was William Herbert's [later the Earl of Pembroke-1580-1630] mistress ... He refused to wed her . . . After bearing three illegitimate children to three different men, she married rich and died respectable. But-alas for the supporters of the Fitton-Herbert theory-Mary inconveniently turns out, from the evidence of her portraits, to have been not dark but fair, with light brown hair and gray eyes. For hair, Shakespeare's dark lady had "black wires"; for eyes, "pitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Piracci had erased some names from his ledgers. Among the names deleted: Nancy D'Alesandro. On the witness stand in Piracci's trial, Nancy admitted getting six checks totaling $11,130.78 from Piracci. But she swore that $1,500 of it was a gift to their newly wed children, Tommy III and Margie. The rest. she claimed, Piracci lent her to pay off debts incurred in her feed business and a venture with a skin softener called Velvex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Little World of Tommy | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Heavyweight fight: Charley Norkus v. Danny Nardico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...theory, the famed La Motte Fouque romance should suit the author of The Madwoman of Challlot to perfection. Giraudoux could delicately regild the tale of a sprite who loved and wed and herself became a mortal, only to return from a dismaying world to the deep, her knightly husband dead of her farewell kiss. Giraudoux could savor its melancholy turns and bitter twists, its clash between innocence and worldliness, its sense of mankind's dreams of perfection and descent into reality. And Giraudoux's own resolute but compassionate worldliness does touch Ondine with glints and flecks of gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 1, 1954 | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Kraft TV Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., NBC). Felicia Montealegre in The Barn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 8, 1954 | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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