Word: bridegrooms
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...even scholars, however, agree on some of Bruegel's details. The matter of the bridegroom in Bruegel's Rustic Wedding (see cut), for instance, has long been a matter of high dispute. Which is he? Viennese Scholar Gustav Glük pointed to the glutton seated halfway down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just...
...sitting with clasped hands and downcast eyes in front of a loosely hung curtain, "is a healthy, blowsy heifer, with an expression of self-restraint and self-satisfaction which is not very attractive." The man grabbing pies off the tray looks too much like the bride to be the bridegroom. So does the one pouring beer into three-pint mugs. They are probably her brothers. Her father, nowhere to be seen, must be dead. The bride's mother, her face hidden, sits on her right. But the bridegroom's face could not be hidden: Bruegel wouldn...
Walda Eileen Winchell, 18-year-old daughter of Walter, who writes for the Hearst press, was sued for divorce by Boston Art Student William Lawless, 29. The disgruntled bridegroom asked for alimony. (Three days after the marriage last June, Gossip Winchell announced-for his daughter: "We made a mistake. After a heart to heart talk we decided to call...
...Battle Is the Payoff), kin of oldtime New York's "400" arbiter, Ward McAllister; and Elaine Brown Keiffer Cobb, 29, LIFE editorial staffer; both for the second time; at Lake Tahoe, Nev., the same day she received her Reno divorce from Army Lieut. Mortimer Howell Cobb. The bridegroom wanted to have every step of the divorce and marriage filmed by his personal photographer, but a bailiff kicked the cameraman out of court at the divorce hearing...
...bridegroom doggedly lasted out a double-row, round-the-block reception line, pumping the hands of the men and kissing the women on the cheek. The bride had to retire with a dizzy spell...