Word: bridegroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture of relaxed enjoyment, and a sight to amaze his fellow composers and authors, who generally pace, squirm and chew their nails backstage or in the lobby during a first performance. Playwright Russel Grouse once called Porter's composure at his own first nights as "indecent as the bridegroom who has a good time at his own wedding...
Usury brings age into youth; it lies between the bride and the bridegroom...
...tribe he found what must have been the simplest form of courtship and marriage short of caveman seizure. The boy picked his girl, left a goat in front of her father's hut and got his wife. No words spoken, no fuss, no marriage ceremony. And if the bridegroom was too poor to own a goat, a bundle of firewood did the trick...
Concerted Effort. In St. Louis, Organist Frederico Aquardo sang two solos, played the wedding march, hurried down from the loft to be bridegroom...
...thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory of Worship forbids a minister to marry a divorced person in less than a year after the divorce has been granted-and then only the innocent party...