Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...action in David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...
...lift the driver sings them a tuneless paean on the pleasures of hitchhiking. When they stop for gas, he tries to drive off with their battered suitcase. The quick flow of comic incident through It Happened One Night reaches its fantastic conclusion in a wedding at which the groom arrives in an autogyro while the bride runs away...