Word: bridesmaids
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Wedding March. In St. Louis, Bridesmaid Josephine Bobak fainted, whereupon Groom Nicholas Bobak fainted, Bride Helen Wolken fainted, Father Wempe called a recess...
...many assault battalions that somebody had called him "often a bride but never a bridesmaid," but now it was obvious that he would never lead another. Said he: "I hate like hell for this to happen so early. But I'll be all right. I'll see you back on States-side and we'll throw a whiz-dinger." Said the brigadier general: "No man in the shape he's in has a right to look so well and talk so normally...
...Jemtchoujnikov sued to recover $24,600 on a loan of 50,000 Tsarist rubles her husband made in 1918 to Jacques Zolotnitzky, who offered to settle for one-millionth of a Soviet ruble. His argument: one 1944 ruble is equal to 50,000,000,000 1918 rubles. Never a Bridesmaid. In Detroit, Mrs. Korene Stankowich, 35, arrested by the FBI for cashing four different soldiers' allotment checks, confessed she had mar ried 15 men in the last 18 years. Explained Mrs. Stankowich (the name of No. 15): "I am very much alive, and I don't think...
...much being on the losing side ... I even took some pride in it. ... At the best it was like rubbing one's fingers firmly over a nutmeg grater." But by 1932, Campaign Manager Ickes was in a position "remindful of the frustrated female who has often been a bridesmaid but never a bride." (He was "plainly," he admits, "not the vote-getting kind.") He watched breathlessly when two Senators (his friends Cutting and Johnson) were in turn offered, and declined, the Department of the Interior. He was in a haze of pessimism when the President-elect detained him alone...
After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement...