Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabin where he had taken his elfin, impubic bride "so's I can raise her up right," gangling Groom Johns declined $500 for newsreel poses, oiled his shotgun, muttered about "furriners" coming into the mountains, exploded: "They're a-sayin' they're goin' to take Eunice away from me. They're a-sayin' the law-makin' men in Nashville is makin' a law sayin' my marriage ain't legal. They've scared Eunice to death talkin' about sendin' her to reform school. I'm that...
...Carthage by a Methodist named Rev. William K. Bradshaw who, like every one else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according to the County Prosecutor, Groom Backus confessed to having seduced her. He was arrested for second-degree rape. Said Mrs. Backus, posing for photographs in apparent enjoyment of home life on her husband's $25-a-week salary: "People ought to mind their own business." Three days later Leona's father was jailed...
...Legislature last week considered the creation of a new State officer whose principal duty would be to try to eradicate venereal disease. Only 16 other States have such full-time administrators. The Legislatures of New York and New Jersey last week entertained resolutions to require medical certificates from bride & groom before permitting marriage. Connecticut put such a law in force a year...
...Hill-Billy Charlie Johns, 22, married blue-eyed third-grader Eunice Winstead, 9. Reverend Walter Lamb said he had performed the ceremony on a lonely road when they accosted him, told him that "if I didn't marry them some one else would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning...
Neither the law of the country nor the law of his religion would forbid a second wife. In Albania, the signing of the marriage contract by the bride's father and by the groom, makes a marriage. It is legal and binding. There is, however, another law relating to marriages. The bride cannot leave her father's house, no matter how legally she may be married, until her husband comes for her, with appropriate ceremony symbolizing marriage by capture. It is known as "taking" the bride. If he never comes she can do nothing about it. When Achmet...