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...remove young women from jobs that men might hold, a Nazi bridal bonus is inaugurated. All newly married couples are granted a loan of 1,000 marks without interest, repayable at 1% of the principal monthly. Only conditions for the loan are that the bride must have been employed for six months before marriage, must quit the job and promise to take no other so long as her husband receives a minimum income of 125 marks ($34) monthly. All the money for the bridal bonus will come from a tax on the bachelors and spinsters of Germany...
When a minister in Southbury, Conn, married for the third time, his neighbors recalled that "we got a pretty good cowthump out of that." Throughout New England the noisy bridal serenade is a nourishing practice, going by such names as horning, shivaree, skimmelton, skimmington, warming, housewarming, sendoff, rouser, jamboree, waking-up, bellin', tin pan shower, callithumpian, callathumpin'. callathump and cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch...
...fathers of both bride and groom are nationally known, Mr. William Foust Wiley as a publicist and publisher, a citizen of acknowledged judgment and influence, and Mr. Frank Furbus Dinsmore as a lawyer of high repute and marked ability. . . . "Into the hush of this ambient twilight came the bridal procession, the feathery green of tender laurel that wreathed choir stalls, pulpit and rood screen, and the curving fronds of a few giant palms massed in the chancel, pointing the way to the altar where the snowy chalices of tall Easter lilies were sentineled by blazing candelabra, seven-branched. . . . "Very pretty...
...alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette), as a humanitarian writer with many a past and present protege (David Gordian, Anzia Yezierska, the late Margery Latimer Toomer et al.). Other books: Birth, Friendship Village, Bridal Pond, Portage, Wisconsin, and Other Essays...
...dark last week. The eight that remained lighted were occupied as follows: two by last season musical comedies (The Cat & The Fiddle, Of Thee I Sing), two by revivals (Show Boat, That's Gratitude), two by plays which opened at the tail end of the season (Another Language, Bridal Wise), two by new plays as doleful as the doldrums which have beset the theatre all summer...