Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Groom of the Bedchamber to sprightly Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales was Viscount Halifax who lay dead last week at 95. In Hickleton Hall with many another mourner for the funeral was his son and successor who as Lord Irwin was recently Viceroy of India. Friends and relatives of the dead peer took no particular notice when a group of resolute men marched into the Hall, dragged packing cases containing family heirlooms out to the lawn, broke them open, took their pick and went their way. After someone detected this amazing theft, the funeral was held amid...
...Fascist presses last week rolled a new pamphlet form of marriage certificate, now being issued to Italian newlyweds. After the names of bride and groom appear twelve blank spaces for the names of their twelve children-a modest estimate, since Il Duce recently gave prizes to 92 "Champion Mothers" with an average of 14 living children apiece (TIME, Jan. 8). Thumbing on through her marriage cer tificate, the Italian bride comes upon these legal reminders: "Matrimony imposes on married couples the reciprocal obligations of cohabitation, faithfulness and assistance (Article 130 of the Civil Code)." "The husband is the head...
Nazi efforts to groom Chancellor Hitler for the Nobel Peace Prize have been featured by press handouts from the Party calling him reverently "Gentle Adolf...
Down the path from her bungalow one day last week skipped Bride Susie wearing a kimono. Groom and preacher, naked, came up another path merrily singing to other colonists, "Won't you come and join us?" A young painter with a Van Dyke beard and some young women in slippers answered their call. So did others less adorned. Cheerfully the witnesses ranged themselves around. Susie slipped off her kimono but kept hold of her bouquet. Preacher Irvine mounted a box. Bride & groom exchanged their vows in the sight of Nature and a camera...
...they did last week over a second church quarrel, one which involved the English Church Union. A venerable body, long considered high church, the Union has been headed by 94-year-old Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount Halifax, a stout Anglo-Catholic who from 1863 to 1877 was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. Last week Viscount Halifax resigned his post largely because in its official publication the Church Union had made what he called a "vicious attack" on the Anglo-Catholic Congress...