Word: bridegrooms
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...decaying Tennessee mansion, three women brooded in their porch chairs. Crazy Grandma Lewis mumbled to an imaginary visitor that her father was away "in the service of the Confederacy." Spinster Aunt Willy dreamed about her chestnut stallion-the only creature she could bring herself to love. Cousin Daphne (her bridegroom had abandoned her on their wedding night when he found she had no money) toyed with the more poisonous specimens of her beloved collection of rare mushrooms. Suddenly the rank growth that ringed the old house parted and Granddaughter Catherine Lewis Chapman stumbled onto the porch. Her husband had been...
Three days later Anei Kur came forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, invested with the spirit of Nyakang, and rejoicing as a strong man to run his course. Henceforth his people know him as Kuna Jo-Uk-God's last-born, the immortal ret of the Shilluks...
...bride-tall, graceful Princess Alexandra of Greece-arrived first: a flash of silken hose under a mink coat. Twenty minutes later came the bridegroom-slim, impulsive King Peter of Yugoslavia, in the light blue uniform of his air force. Other limousines brought the witnesses: Britain's George VI, the bridegroom's godfather, and Greece's George II, the bride's uncle. Among the guests: Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Norway's King Haakon, Holland's Queen Wilhelmina...
...years older, living with two spinster aunts. The women believed that Griswold and his two daughters had a fortune of $50,000. They did not. Griswold on his part dreamed of a winter home in the temperate South. "On his wedding night the bridegroom learned that . . . the woman who bore his name was, through some physical misfortune, incapable of being a wife. . . . Whether Charlotte or her aunts knew of her unfortunate condition before the marriage cannot be determined; but Griswold believed that they were aware of it, and he considered himself the victim of a vicious trick. He believed that...
...table, crawled on hands & knees, somehow was pushed through an open doorway into the street. A chorus boy herded a dozen people downstairs into a refrigerator. A few men & women crawled out windows; a few escaped by knocking out a glass brick wall. But most of them, including Bridegroom John O'Neil, were trapped...