Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...iniquities of the laissez faire system by reference to former conditions in English factories and American railways but they forget to mention former marriage conditions in the Caucasus. To buy a wife was then a costly proposition, for besides paying a heavy sum to the bride's father, the groom was obliged to entertain the whole village lavishly on the day of his betrothal. To the poorer tribesman, therefore, stealing or kidnapping brides became almost obligatory, a practice which often led to blood feuds between the families of bride and kidnapper. So much for the evils of laissez faire; government...
...Edward of Wales and his brother Albert of York cantered ahunting near Melton Mowbray last week, a horse escaped from one of the grooms and bolted in their direction. Tossing the reins of his own mount to his brother, Edward dismounted and attempted to seize the bridle of the escaped horse. The horse escaped still farther?over a fence. Undaunted, the Prince climbed carefully over a locked gate and seized the bridle of the now apparently docile runaway. By that time the disgruntled groom who had let it get away from him in the first place had ridden up. Edward...
...London it was announced that the Right Honorable Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, M. P., only son of Lord Halifax (Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales) has been appointed Viceroy of India, to succeed Lord Reading upon the latter's announced retirement next April...
There Lou left him. with the little Welsh groom whose lunar spiritual isolation had mastered not only the horse but, momentarily, the stony Mrs. Witt. Lou went on, into New Mexico, with her mother and their other groom, a half-breed Navajo from Arizona. The latter, detached, impassive, had seemed more than human back in England; but here, with dusky squaws about, he could be seen as himself, stupid, ratlike, sexually predatory...
...ushers were Gimbels-Ellis, Richard. Benedict; the best man was also a Gimbel-Louis Jr. Married. Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, Pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven, church secretary; at New Haven. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat, onetime U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg...