Word: bridegrooms
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Hitherto a Chinese marriage, what with exorbitant fees for priests, costly offerings to the gods and enough food to gorge all the bride's & bridegroom's friends, has often cost enough to run the couple into debt for life. Chinese bankers, who have battened on such marriages for centuries, gnawed their lips in rage last week as Mayor Wu hired an elegant brass band which blared the "Wedding March" of "Foreign Devil" Mendelssohn...
...jammed ranks of 1,200 neck-craning relatives, 57 couples advanced with diffidence, two couples at a time. Mayor Wu, officiating, encouraged each bride and groom to bow thrice to a statue of Dr. Sun, twice to each other and once to Mayor Wu. He then handed to each bridegroom a satisfying certificate done in multi-colored inks and the marriage was complete...
...divorce but by this time Manya, convinced that her attachment for Tony has reached an impasse, has married the loutish young Pole (Ralph Bellamy) to whom her father has promised her. The situation explodes suddenly on their wedding night. Enraged when he finds Manya weeping and reluctant, her drunken bridegroom rushes out to kill the man he suspects she loves. Manya follows him to the Barretts' house. Trying to separate her husband and Tony Barrett as they scuffle on the stairs, Manya falls. When the two men reach her she is dead...
Gladsome in Bombay last week a wealthy 60-year-old Hindu, reported just rejuvenated by Dr. Voronoff, invited guests to the celebration of his marriage with a girl of 13. Rejoiced the old bridegroom: "As the night approaches I feel as young as my sweet bride...
Greta's honeymoon was as queer as her courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along...