Word: bridegroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young couple with a complete set of house- hold silver, comprising hundreds of pieces. The Queen is giving jewels to her prospective daughter-in-law. The Prince of Wales' gift to the future bride is a set of sables, composed of the rarest and finest pelts. The blushing bridegroom will present his prospective spouse with a bracelet adorned with gems. From an unknown source comes a cheque for ?2,500, which is now being distributed in London, Glasgow, York, Cardiff and Belfast for the purpose of giving poor children a good time on the wedding...
...contrary from one of the victims himself, who told his plaintive story to solicitous pressmen after the state constabulary had been summoned to restore order at the college. No, the real cause underlying the incident seems attributable only to the malevolent exhuberance of youth. Even the blushing bridegroom was not spared. A young and newly-wed professor was mercilessly paraded to the waters, and saved his dignity only by a graceful plunge...
There is an old story which is probably known to everyone. There were ten virgins of whom five were wise and five foolish. The wise virgins took oil with them, but the foolish did not. When, at last, the bridegroom came, the foolish virgins found themselves without oil, and as they could borrow none, they were compelled to go out and buy. When they returned they found themselves locked...