Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning (1928) Drug Inc. was a simple two-way union between a curiously assorted couple that had one thing in common: each earned about $6,000,000 a year. The groom was Louis Kroh Liggett's United Drug Co. The business of United Drug was and is to manufacture drugs and other drug store items for sale exclusively by its own retailers, in chief 10,000-odd Rexall Drug Stores. While United Drug's original business was manufacturing not retailing, some of its Rexall dealers had from time to time decided to retire from business and Mr. Liggett...
...faces, nearly ruined the bride's dress (Patou) and had a grand time. There are no seats in a Russian church. For over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round the altar and sprinkled them with holy water, bride & groom stood, holding lighted candles. The bride swayed dangerously once or twice but did not collapse. Among the nine ushers who took turns holding gilt crowns over the heads of the couple were Prince Theodore of Russia, Serge Lifar, a dancer at the Paris opera, and three other Woolworth heirs, cousins...
...size of the groom's settlement set the world wondering at the size of the bride's fortune. When the late Frank Winfield (5? & 10^?) Woolworth died in 1919, he owned approximately one quarter of the stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate...
Married. Prince Wilhelm, 26, eldest son of Germany's onetime Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm; and one Dorothea von Salviati, 25, commoner; in Bonn. The groom's parents did not attend the wedding. By his act the Prince, considered by monarchists the logical candidate for a Hohenzollern restoration, automatically renounces his claim to the German throne...
...cowthump. The serenade includes such noisemakers as tin pans, kettles, washboilers, dinner bells, cowbells horns, gongs, drums, saws, tin cans, shotguns, "horse fiddles" (two rails gratin.tr together), "devil's fiddles" (a plank run through a box), "skonk" (conch) shells and corn-shellers filled with small stones The bride & groom are expected to listen patiently for a bit, then give the cothumpers plenty of cigars, applejack, gin whiskey or beer. If they do not, or if they are definitely disliked by the cowthumpers. the noise goes on. If the couple decline to show themselves, the crowd may cover their chimney...