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...someone played the wedding march on a portable organ and someone else loaned Mr. Marshall a ring and someone else again gave Miss Fortescue away. Amid squeals, hugs, kisses, handshakes, the couple made their way to an automobile. At 11 p. m. Bride Fortescue was back in her dormitory, Groom Marshall on his way to Manhattan...
...shall act as the Weihewart or Consecrator of this wedding," declared Professor Hauer, and proceeded to do so. While the bride and groom bent their heads and cameras clicked, the Weihewart read sonorously from a ritual book of Pagan devising: "Oh Mother Earth, from whom all love proceeds! And oh Father Heaven, who blesses with His light and weather! And all good Powers of the Air! May you rule over this man and this woman until their destinies are fulfilled...
Violet Hilton was the one who sought the marriage license in Manhattan last week. Prospective groom was Maurice L. Lambert, 29, of Westmoreland, Md., her orchestra leader. Daisy pleaded for her sister's right to marry, for she, too, was engaged...
...left no make heir to carry on. It took Kaiser Wilhelm II to solve this difficulty. When big buxom Bertha, Friedrich Alfred's daughter, came of marriageable age Wilhelm betrothed her to protege of his own selection and training; Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach--and it was the groom, not his bride whose name changed by the betrothal. He then became Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Under this new head of the house, who took command in 1909, Krupp went further still, supplied fifty-two countries with arms before the war, and stood all but single-handed against the world...
...herself to the troupe, but one day on shipboard he sent an emissary to her who said: "Romola Carlovna, as Nijinsky cannot speak to you himself, he has requested me to ask you in marriage." The ceremony at Buenos Aires was pronounced in Latin and Spanish. Neither bride nor groom understood a word of it. When Diaghilev heard the news he dismissed Nijinsky from the Ballet. A baby was on the way. The couple, who were just learning to converse in pidgin-French and Russian, went to Austria. There the War caught them and the authorities refused to let them...