Word: bridegroom
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...other youngsters learned their nursery rhymes. Her father used to prop her on his knee and read her the stock quotations. When Hetty Robinson, at 31, married 46-year-old Vermont Millionaire Edward Henry Green, she was already by inheritance one of the richest women in the U.S.; her bridegroom was said to have signed a statement renouncing all future rights to her fortune...
Chess & Counterspies. Labyrinth takes place in a murky sort of mahogany Marienbad. Endless corridors and countless doors make the plight of a bridegroom who has lost his key and forgotten his room number on his wedding night seem hopeless indeed. As he and his bride flounder around with understandable impatience, a series of personages appear, each bearing-according to Menotti-a strong allegorical identity. An old man in a wheelchair, who represents The Past, lures the groom into a cobwebby conservatory filled with jungle plants to play a possibly symbolic game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab...
Coffins & Chases. At last, after losing his bride entirely in a series of aquatic misadventures, the bridegroom winds up wet and nearly naked at the desk of the hotel. The hotel manager, in sinister makeup, obviously represents Death. He has a key for the groom all right, the key he has been looking for all his life. The groom is told to lie down on a bench, and a coffin is built around him. When the manager and a lackey finish nailing it together, they carry it away, leaving the bridegroom lying dead on the bench, hands crossed...
Explaining the general view of God in his poetry, Brother Antoninus said: "I seek constantly to use sexual union as an analogue of man's union with God. The relationship of God and man is like that of a bride and bridegroom; the human's role is feminine, while God's is masculine...
More than a quarter-century after premarital blood-testing was adopted in Connecticut, said Manhattan Psychologist Hugo G. Beigel, "there are still several states where candidates from all over the country can be married without this precaution." In three chivalrous states, only the bridegroom has to have the test...