Word: bridegroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lorries. They elbowed their way into the kraal, streamed through Chief Sandile's house as though it were a wax museum. When the bride, covered from head to foot in a ritual green blanket, approached the Royal Kraal, the whites charged toward her, blocking the entrance. The bridegroom, waiting anxiously for a first look at the bride he had never seen, could see only the shouting throng of the uninvited...
...tumbled to the ground by an overenthusiastic camera bug. Then, draping a leopard skin about her shoulders, she picked up an assagai (spear) to fling it into the Royal Kraal gatepost-the traditional demand for admission to the Gaika tribe. The jam of whites spoiled her aim: she missed. Bridegroom Anthorpe, in a long leopard skin, gave up in disgust and returned to his dressing room. Not for another hour did Anthorpe confront his bride. At an open-air altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities and other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican...
...three hours before Anthorpe and Eunice were made man and wife. Bridegroom and bride struggled through the crowd to the seclusion of Chief Sandile's house. The whites streamed back to the cities, leaving the Gaika and the Pondo tribesmen to ponder on the strange customs and manners of white people...
...free with scullery trulls and upstairs maids; he also abused the confessional and other sacred precincts, it was said, with docile ladies of the parish. He had even taken a rich "wife," though his enemies had difficulty in proving it, because Grandier himself had served as both priest and bridegroom...
When British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, himself a bridegroom of only six weeks, paid a visit to Tito last week, he found a new Mrs. Tito* by the dictator's side. She is a svelte and bronzed brunette, Jovanka Budisavljevic, 28, a major in the Yugoslav army who had been assigned last year to Tito's secretariat. She had joined Tito's partisans at 17 and by war's end was a lieutenant. Last spring the dictator put aside his dictation long enough to get married. The wedding was held in deepest secrecy. The Yugoslav press...