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...nuptials came not only Their Britannic Majesties, but also King Albert and Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians, she arriving by air from Brussels. Just four years after the smartest bride & groom in England left the altar of the Chapel Royal, he entered the House of Commons as a Laborite (i. e., a Socialist). Five years later she did the same (TIME...
...special attention." He became Miss Semple's fiancé in Shanghai (Feb. 16). "It is a pure love match," said Evangelist McPherson, "I give it my blessing." Said Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, grandmother of the bride: "I got married when I was 15. Sister [Mrs. McPherson] went to the altar when she was 17, so Roberta, being 19, waited much longer than either...
...Significance. That such a convinced prophet of footless negation can find a publisher, even in Manhattan, may be a sign that the U. S., like Pauline Athens, has an altar ready for the Unknown God. Or it may merely indicate that Anything Goes. But most curious is the fact that Fort has a following of some note, who have formed a Fortean Society to praise his name. Publisher Kendall's jacket blurb is enthusiastically contributed to by Authors Theodore Dreiser, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, John Cowper Powys, Ben Hecht (who announced himself "the first disciple of Charles Fort...
...attempt to be a "dripping Venus rising from the sea of Chicago." Even the effort of Chicago's Republican Mayor William Hale Thompson to swing the city's Negro vote to him had not hurt Mr. Lewis who joshed the Mayor for deserting his "political fiancee at the altar." One fact predominated: Illinois is Wet and so is "J. Ham" Lewis...
...Czechoslovakia, as Leopold Grund stood at the altar waiting to be married, he went mad with hydrophobia from a dog bite of weeks before...