Word: groom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months since V-J day the uniformed groom had all but vanished, taking with him a dress sword made gooey by wedding-cake icing. But thousands of other props which had been abandoned during the war were back again. From Westchester County to the Monterey Peninsula, from Philadelphia's Main Line to Miami's palm-bordered mansions, society weddings were being planned, costumed and produced as ponderously as musical comedies...
...little weddings were different, too. Much of the change was reflected in the groom's expression. Marriage no longer seemed like one more hurried step in a process calculated to get him out to an island where the Japs could blow his head off. Occasionally a groom still got the spotlight-as last week when Byron ("Whizzer") White, Colorado's All-America Rhodes Scholar and naval hero, married pretty Miss Marion Stearns at Boulder (see MILESTONES). But mostly husbands-to-be could let their knees knock in peace...
Hearstlings Walter Winchell and Cholly Knickerbocker broke the news: "Her Grace" was about to remarry. The supposed groom-to-be: Charles Andrews Munroe, 71, retired midwest utilitycoon and international-setter. Almost immediately the item withered. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Son Cornelius Jr., quoted by the World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...
Drew Pearson, brash, breathless, and sometimes knowing Washington columnist, wearing a smile for the photographer and getting a kiss from bridal-veiled Daughter Ellen (as Thurman Arnold's son George, the groom, stood by), beautified a Woodbury beauty soap...
Hans George Hornbostel and Gertrude Costenoble took their marriage vows in Guam in 1913. The groom, 32, had spent ten years in the Army, was then a Marine top kick and in top condition. His bride had just shown her fitness by swimming half a mile from the house of her disapproving father to the wedding...