Word: bridegrooms
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...roared with the crowd as Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn launched the evening speechmaking. The bald, benign and beaming Speaker hoped that the Republicans would win some congressional seats and "give us a two-party system." As a 67-year-old bachelor to a 72-year-old bridegroom, he also gave Vice President Alben Barkley a leer and a nudge on his recent marriage...
...fine spring day during his honeymoon, Thomas Elliott Snyder suddenly dashed into a hardware store in Charleston, S.C., bought a hatchet and scurried out again. Then, while popeyed passers-by looked on, the bridegroom began hacking at a telephone pole on one of Charleston's main business streets. A few minutes later, he triumphantly rejoined his waiting and bewildered bride, with a fine specimen of a soldier termite (genus Kalotermes) in his hand...
...prince, reported the papers, was one Rico David Tancous, wanted in Washington for housebreaking and theft. At week's end, the bridegroom had skipped town and his bride was threatening to annul the marriage. Editorialized the scoop-happy Item: "Phony princes, dubious dukes and no-count counts are scarcely strangers to the American scene ... In newspaper parlance, Otto Wilhelm von Hohenzollern ... is good copy...
Vice President Alben Berkley began to fancy his privacy but went on paying the price of fame. His black limousine pulled up in front of a flossy Washington jeweler's after closing time, and the door was opened for the bridegroom-elect. Afterward, newsmen told him that he had been spotted and asked for an explanation. "Oh, hell," groaned Barkley, then sheepishly admitted shopping for a ring...
...Said the bridegroom: "If I signed any such agreement, the effect of it was not realized by me. I was willing to participate in a wedding ceremony in accordance with my wife's faith and she felt the same about mine." Excommunicated Claire made no comment at all. The archdiocese hinted that she could be reinstated in the Roman Catholic Church if she made a confession of error and did proper penance...