Word: groomed
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...eloquent rant: "Two infatuate trains ran pell-mell into each other, and climbed and clawed each other's backs; and one locomotive was found fairly shelled, like a chick, inside of a passenger car in the antagonist train; and near a score of noble hearts, a bride and her groom, and an innocent little infant, were all disembarked into the grim hulk of Charon...Yet what's the use of complaining?... Don't the heavens themselves ordain these things...
...regards the sloppy mode as too casual for royal princes and has had words with Diana about it. Grandma does not share Charles and Diana's relaxed approach to molding a future King. Bradford reports that at the Balmoral royal estate in Scotland six years ago, Wills gave his groom the slip and came home early from a riding session. Alarmed at this irregularity, the Queen "tore a strip...
...groom's breaking of a glass is a joyous part of the Jewish wedding ceremony. What if instead the ceremony ended with both participants trying to maneuver themselves into position to be the one who did the stomping? What sort of way is that to begin a marriage...
Then last week I went to a perfectly legal heterosexual Jewish wedding in Chicago, and at the end of the ceremony both bride and groom stomped on glasses. Apparently, that's done a lot these days, in the same spirit as having both parents walk down the aisle with the bride. I had simply been behind the times...
...then, David and his wife Linda had been married four years. Their backyard wedding had been a mixture of Buddhist and Christian ceremony. After the bride and groom, sitting before a large painting of a Bodhisattva, clanged finger cymbals and chanted, a Christian minister offered a blessing. It was in late 1994 that Ted wrote asking for money. David sent $1,000 in October. Two months later, Thomas Mosser, a New Jersey advertising executive, was killed by a device the Unabomber had mailed from San Francisco. In February 1995, David sent Ted $2,000 more. Two months after that, Gilbert...