Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of Frank W. Woolworth, popular-price merchant; to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr.; in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan. The groom recently changed his faith to that of the bride...
...like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez). At just the wrong moment, with a fierce fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou), looking immensely urbane and a wee bit weary, overshadows the scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion-and especially Lya de Putti, vampire extraordinaire. After a little of this, Satan chases the poor young man back to his poor sweetheart and the tenements, evidently to earn that "hour...
...John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth, N. H. Divorced. Fawn Gray, famed a year ago as the night club dancing girl who so alluringly interested senile Harry K. Thaw for many an evening; from one Theodore MacFarland, her groom after a two-day party; at Baltimore. Died. Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, 49, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." (See RUSSIA, p. 10.) Died. Franklin S. Terry, 64, early (1889) maker of incandescent electric light bulbs; at Black Mountain near Asheville, N. C., of heart disease. He brought together a score of struggling...
...York. The Governor of New York made an address: "Only hard work and hard study can carry the children of the sidewalks of New York, and"-the presidential candidate added-"the children of the country-to success and high honor." Then he went to breakfast with the bride and groom...
...Viceroy. As the son and heir of the aged Viscount Halifax (87-year-old Groom of the Bedchamber to Edward of Wales), Mr. E. F. L. Wood has need of his interim title "Lord Irwin" only during his viceroyship** or until his father dies. His choice as Viceroy is regarded as felicitous in the extreme, because his grandfather, the first Viscount Halifax, was raised to that estate for his success (as "Sir Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles...