Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's Willard Hotel. There that New York dandy witnessed the wedding of Colorado's U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Silver Dollar") Tabor and Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe. Diplomats and Congressmen were present. The beauteous young bride wore a pearl necklace for which the groom had that morning paid a fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with the popping of champagne corks, heavy with the scent of thousands of flowers-"a massive wedding bell of white roses, surmounted...
Next day the Catholic priest who officiated, discovering that both bride and groom had been divorced, refused to sign the marriage license. President Arthur and the rest of Washington learned that the happy pair had been secretly married in Missouri some months before. The agents whom Tabor had sent abroad to find Queen Isabella's jewels, it developed, had never left the U. S. And on March 4 Tabor's 30-day term as Senator ended and he returned with "Baby Doe" to Denver...
...Received with high approval and respect a plea in behalf of Britons now in jail for debt from the 1st Baron Snell, an eminent Fabian Socialist whose parents were farm laborers and who relates in Who's Who that he has worked as a "groom, ferryman and potman...
...house shortly after 8 a. m. There it was filled out by John Boettiger, 34, and Anna Roosevelt Dall, 28. Justice Frederic Kernochan, friend and fishing companion of the President, performed the ceremony. It was hardly over when the telephone rang and Father Roosevelt gave his congratulations to bride & groom. Fifteen minutes later the President's daughter was speeding away, her heart aflutter, in John Boettiger's automobile...
Married. Lady Moira Mary Forbes, 24, niece of Ogden Mills, grandniece of the late Mrs. Whitelaw Reid; and Comte Louis de Brantes, 34; at Castle Forbes, Newtown Forbes, Irish Free State. Three weeks ago Russian Princess Nadejda Scherbatoff sued Groom de Brantes for $65,000 damages allegedly incurred in bearing him a daughter (TIME...