Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House, stepped into his carriage, rolled around to Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with the popping of champagne corks, heavy with the scent of thousands...
Next day the Catholic priest who officiated, discovering that both bride and groom had been divorced, refused to sign the marriage license. President Arthur and the rest of Washington learned that the happy pair had been secretly married in Missouri some months before. The agents whom Tabor had sent abroad to find Queen Isabella's jewels, it developed, had never left the U. S. And on March 4 Tabor's 30-day term as Senator ended and he returned with "Baby Doe" to Denver...
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...
...Stotesbury has said: "My favorite topic of conversation is my son Jimmy." Since Mrs. Stotesbury also gets along well with Mr. Stotesbury, Son Jimmy & bride should have plenty of money to use for Jimmy's ideas on monetary reform. His business career has been lively. First married to Delphine Dodge, daughter of Motormaker Horace E. Dodge, he stepped in after his father-in-law died, persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the company to a stock-selling syndicate for $146,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history. With his fat profits from...
...world's biggest non-ferrous metal smelters & refiners, had bought a big block of stock in United Verde earlier than Phelps Dodge. Last week in Manhattan the two suitors rushed to a meeting of United Verde's 33 stockholders to learn who had won the bride...