Word: bridegrooms
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...showers, the task of picking a wedding present is increasingly difficult. Used more widely and efficiently than ever before is the custom of the bride's giving a department store a list of acceptable gifts; wedding guests may then call the store, buy their gifts. Like many another bridegroom, Washington's Jonathan Roosevelt, 21, son of Kermit Roosevelt and great-grandson of T.R., gaped at the store-sized inventory of presents ("Look at all that stuff") before his marriage this week to Jae Barlow, 20, a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe. Latest count of shower and wedding gifts...
...four-hour chamber work was innocently titled Elegy for Young Lovers, but the plot was anything but innocent. A predatory poet has earned fame by secretly transcribing the rantings of a middle-aged widow, driven mad by the wedding-night death of her bridegroom 40 years earlier. For further inspiration, the poet sends two young lovers to their death on an Alpine peak, and as the curtain falls, he is reciting his latest opus: Elegy for Young Lovers. The tragicomic moral: death for art's sake...
...year-old bridegroom was already dreaming of cutting a swath through battlefield and boudoir. The 14-year-old bride thought only of venerating church, husband and home. On April 11, 1774, as arranged by two of France's first families, Gilbert Motier de La Fayette married Adrienne d'Ayen. The bride had barely left the altar when she was forced to begin a lifelong struggle to preserve her marriage to the soldier who became a hero of the American Revolution, a prime mover of the French Revolution, and a roving gallant who collected mistresses like medals...
...used for other purposes. In Bali, as in Burma, some of the floats and effigies paraded to the burning ground are so huge that 75 men are required to carry them. In Rumania, at the funeral of a girl of marriageable age, a young man volunteers to be her bridegroom, and he walks with her to the grave as if to the altar...
Baudouin, King of the Belgians, like many a conservative bridegroom, was beginning to discover a thing or two about at least one of his bride's relatives. As Baudouin honeymooned last week in Andalusia with his winsome new Spanish Queen, her brother, "Count" Jaime ("Call me Jimmy") de Mora y Aragón, 35, was giving in to what he calls his "little weakness" - the love of notoriety...