Word: bridegrooms
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...court train. Her veil of tulle was held with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley." An amazing picture rose in the minds of the Tory breakfasters-that of a fashionable church, wall-eyed ushers, pretty bridesmaids, a young bridegroom of an excellent Washington family and, amid all the diaphaneity of lace and flowers so dewily described by the Times reporter, a bride who wheeled upon the shocked congregation a dusky face...
Court circles in Rome were agog. The engagement of Princess Mafalda, second daughter of the King and Queen, to Prince Philip of Hesse, nephew of the ex-Kaiser of Germany, was announced from the Quirinal. The prospective bride is 22 and the bridegroom...
...expression which this becoming action took is not without a body of precedent. History records that certain men, variously disguised, have attended their own funerals or ironically watched a "double" substituting as bridegroom. Similarly romance never wearies of the old theme of lovers masquerading under the habiliments of the opposite sex. Even Achilles, before he was old enough to assumes a title role in the Trojan War, spent an undetected, if precarious youth among the princesses in the royal megaron. The chronicles of every age, indeed, narrate the successes of those who have effected such impersonations...
...henpecked husband, Mr. Mowbray, as a Cockney toymaker, and Miss Currier, as a slovenly housemaid, all offer distinctive bits. Miss Standing is an able foil for Mr. Clive. Miss Ediss is several shades too cheerful to be real in face of adverse circumstances. Mr. Tonge as the prospective young bridegroom seems scarcely worth fighting...
...wedding, there appears a handsome and extremely affable young gentleman from Holland (Vernon Steele). She cuts dates with her fiancé to motor with this new arrival and then directs the new arrival to disappear. Fifteen minutes before the wedding, he can contain himself no longer and returns. The bridegroom, reasonably and yet quite unreasonably irritated, makes a scene. The bride hurls her wedding bouquet on the floor, swears at him with authentic modern fervor and falls into the Dutchman's arms...