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Word: bridegrooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. George W. Dodge, 83, President of the First National Bank of Shinglehouse, Pa.; to Mrs. Jane F. Swallow, 81, Civil War nurse; in New York City. When paying for the wedding license the bridegroom produced a $20 bill, chuckled, said: "Uncle Sam makes these, but they're no good until I sign them,"* pointed to his signature as President of the Shinglehouse bank. After the ceremony he said: "If you could express how I feel, it would not look well in print-I feel bully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 18, 1927 | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement. The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Road Companies | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...What flower (not a gardenia or a lily-of-valley) may a high-grade bridegroom wear in buttonhole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Game No. 1 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

What Anne Brought Home?The gentle bridegroom victorious by making a fish farm out of a mud hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Showing in Manhattan | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Blind Alleys (Thomas Meighan). The bride is carried off by gunmen. The bridegroom, loath to part, pursues. There are reels of his bursting into rooms from which she has just burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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