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...addition to having written that painful masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, Adams ought to be famed as the author of one of the least gallant letters a prospective bridegroom ever wrote about his future wife. On March 26, 1872, the young grandson of John Quincy Adams informed an English friend: "The young woman calls herself Marian Hooper and belongs to a sort of clan, as all Bostonians do. . . . She is certainly not handsome; nor would she be quite called plain, I think. She is twenty-eight years old. She knows her own mind uncommon well. . . . She talks garrulously...
Simultaneously the U. S. Embassy in Moscow was preparing for one of the few big "diplomatic weddings" and receptions since the Great Powers entered into diplomatic relations with the Bolsheviks. The bridegroom, Embassy Disbursing Officer George Minor, had gone to Finland to fetch the bride, Miss Mildred Wright of Charleston, W. Va. who thought it would be romantic to be married in Moscow. There is in Moscow no church with a U. S. pastor, but Bridegroom Minor had retained the services of Moscow's one Protestant clergyman, Reverend A. Streck. Herr Streck's parents were German...
Thus the "clutch" story of an impetuous bridegroom (Would You Marry a College Girl? Yes.) is prefaced with a little monolog about waiting for the delivery of a new automobile. The "differential" story of another young couple (Would You Marry A College Man? No.) begins with factory instructions on breaking in a new car, a theme whose smutty possibilities are as obvious as they are outworn. Some times Weller grinds his gears pretty badly in shifting from one tale to the next; sometimes the transitions are lightly made...
...good job he did there was the turning point of young Count Ciano's life and he went on the upgrade with a passionate courtship of Edda Mussolini which was over in a few weeks. Soon after the wedding, bride and bridegroom sailed for Shanghai. There, presently...
...rabbis. Max was calculating, clever, unscrupulous, ugly; Yakob openhanded, strong, a great favorite first with the girls and then with the heiresses who started him on his way to fortune. Because Max was considered one of the cleverest boys in the city he was selected as the bridegroom for lively, warm-hearted Dinah, daughter of a small manufacturer. But she loved Yakob who was attracted to her. In half-primitive, backward Lodz, periodically split by savage strikes of the Jewish and German weavers, by pogroms that were encouraged by the Tsarist police, the two brothers soon became business rivals...