Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers. the noise goes on. If the couple decline to show themselves, the crowd may cover their chimney...
...Marion Devereux rose splendidly to the occasion. For two-and-one-half columns she rhapsodized. Excerpts: "Last night the marriage of Miss Margaret Wiley and Mr. Campbell Dinsmore was an event of wide importance both for its social interest and owing to the fact that the fathers of both bride and groom are nationally known, Mr. William Foust Wiley as a publicist and publisher, a citizen of acknowledged judgment and influence, and Mr. Frank Furbus Dinsmore as a lawyer of high repute and marked ability. . . . "Into the hush of this ambient twilight came the bridal procession, the feathery green...
Opera director, whose sister was the late famed Art Patron Lizzie P. Bliss, and whose father was William McKinley's Secretary of the Interior. Disliking cats, Bride Parkinson had been sympathetic when her servants complained of nightly prowling & yowling. She decided to act when some cats leaped through her windows while she was entertaining dinner guests. She got a trap from the International Cat Investigating Society (to which Lawyer Herrick, then New York City's Park Commissioner, had sent a letter of encouragement when it formed in 1931 to agitate for licensing of the city...
...hands all around, congratulated the crew on the salute of 21 foghorn blasts the Thebaud had paid the Sequoia down the river. The fishermen gave the President a 50-lb. halibut. "Just about enough to feed my family," chuckled Mr. Roosevelt, before cracking the old joke about the young bride who ordered six halibut for dinner. The Wartime Assistant Secretary of the Navy remembered well how one of the fleet's schooners had been sunk by German submarines...
Stephen (Richard Hale) is leading a comfortable life with his stolid, attentive wife (Blanche Yurka ) when Karl and his bride come to visit. The bride (svelte Lora Baxter) has previously been Stephen's mistress in Paris...