Word: bridegrooms
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Witnesses for the bride were the French Army's taut, terrier-like Chief of Staff General Max Weygand and equally intense onetime Premier and present Minister Without Portfolio André Tardieu. About all that gallant Paris correspondents permitted themselves to say of the bridegroom, M. Antoine Rieder, was that he had as his witness the Military Governor of Paris, grim-browed General Henri Gouraud...
Actually the bride would be less than half the heroine she is today had it not been for the bridegroom. A second rate writer, he has made it his career to keep Heroine Marie van Houtte before a grateful public with such books as Meditation in the Trenches and The Women...
...bursts or God otherwise afflicts her people Queen Wilhelmina is at once upon the scene. Last week she left Amsterdam to her devoted troops and police and went on with preparations to give Consort Henry the sort of funeral he had said he wanted. When he came as a bridegroom to Holland in 1901, Prince Henry, fourth son of the late reigning Duke of Mecklenburg, was considered by the Dutch people most handsome but too frivolous. He introduced boar hunting and Dutch farmers were furious. But Prince Henry proved adaptable. He learned to sit expressionless beside Her Majesty...
...magic of another less comely party ("the witch woman"), lies unconscious until a witch doctor restores him. Three African drummers slap out the only accompaniment, sometimes weirdly soft, sometimes fiercely loud. Abdul Assen, the witch doctor, had polite audiences in chills last week as he groveled over the prostrate bridegroom, chanted and yelped his frenzied incantations. The bridegroom, a wide-smiling Negro with a large gold tooth, was Asadata Dafora Horton, Kykunkor's librettist, composer, choreographer and director. He is a native of Sierra Leone. His great- grandfather, a slave for a time, took the name Horton from...
...Angeles, Fay Young and Lucille Tomes filed intention to wed. Three days later, Arthur Young and Lucille Tomes filed intention to wed. Explained second-choice bridegroom Arthur: "Lucille had a little spat with my brother, so we decided to marry instead...