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Word: grooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practically always accompanied by religious or civil ceremonies. Lawyer Delson recommends his find for deaf-mutes because such contracts require no words, take but 35 sec. to sign. They should also appeal to Quakers, Mennonites and other sectarians who dislike to swear oaths. Nevertheless Bride McGraw and Groom Mallina did by no means avoid Godliness. Their contract stipulated that it was as good as a religious ceremony, and day after they signed it they repaired, for a short philosophic talk, to the home of famed Columbia Professor John Dewey, who believes in a vague humanistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Contract Marriage | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Glen Cove last week arrived Grain Broker Herbert L. Bodman on his yacht. He was returning from a three-week, six-horse cavalcade on which, followed by chauffeur & groom with Ford trailer containing stove, icebox and 200-lb. of oats, Broker Bodman, his wife, their son & daughter and two friends had ridden horseback 360 miles to Rutland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo & Parties | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...boat, the Six Little Brothers, set off to lend her efficient aid. It was late that night before the weary fishermen returned, to watch Mme Toussaint and Jean jump over the broomstick together. And as the overworked engine of the Six Little Brothers had broken down, the bride and groom never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cajun Idyll | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...hotel workers' strike had been settled in principle, the hotel workers were in most cases still playing cards or dominoes while exact details of the terms on which they fully intended to resume work were being drawn up, much as the families of a French bride and groom haggle over the marriage settlement while the engaged couple are only too anxious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Arise and Slash! | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...Robert Bell, Wartime groom to Edward of Wales and until last week a stableboy in Ireland, received a black-bordered envelope from Buckingham Palace, joyfully chucked up his job to work for King Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crown's Week | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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