war-bride

There are families with them as well: the 18-year-old war-bride pushing her 19-year-old husband's wheelchair and not quite understanding why her husband is so affected by this, the boy she grew up with, now a man, who had never shed a tear is crying; the older immigrant Latino parents who have, perhaps more than their wounded mid-20s son, an appreciation for the emotion given on their son's behalf.

Fridays in the Pentagon 2008

There are families with them as well: the 18-year-old war-bride pushing her 19-year-old husband's wheelchair and not quite understanding why her husband is so affected by this, the boy she grew up with, now a man, who had never shed a tear is crying; the older immigrant Latino parents who have, perhaps more than their wounded mid-20s son, an appreciation for the emotion given on their son's behalf.

Fridays in the Pentagon washingtonpost.com 2008

The book was a story of a guy who's a photographer, and he drifts across the country, and he meets a war-bride, and the writer in that case took the woman's point of view, so the screenwriter actually had a better take on it than the novelist.

Brad Balfour: Clint Eastwood As a Changeling 2008

It is all very well to be a war-bride when there's a war, but the war was over.

I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

Miss Kaplan kissed her, quite uninvited, again, said "_Dear_ little war-bride!" and -- just in time, Marjorie always swore, to save herself from death, fled out.

I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931

The doctor was away, having been summoned during the wee sma's to the Marwood household in Upper Glen, where a little war-bride was fighting gallantly on her own battleground to give life, not death, to the world.

Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

"I would really not have minded being a war-bride myself," remarked Susan sentimentally.

Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud 1921

Although the crudity of the "war-bride" method of increasing the population is not evident in France, every working-girl wears the medallion of some "hero" on her breast.

The World Decision Robert Herrick 1903

Michele gives up her dreams of becoming a professional go-go dancer to become Critter’s “war-bride” after he reenlists in the military.

The Death of an Actor 2008

Michele gives up her dreams of becoming a professional go-go dancer to become Critter’s “war-bride” after he reenlists in the military.

The Misadventures Of A Go-Go Girl 2008