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Word: grooms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down the table with the spoon in his mouth, perhaps because he is the only man looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there. He backed up his opinion with an old Flemish proverb: " 'It's a poor man who is not able to eat at his own wedding.' That seems to be the case here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mystery Story | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...November Magazine of Art, Major Gilbert Highet, a former Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford, and on military leave from Columbia University, thinks he has found the groom. Using the tried-&-true detective method of eliminating suspects, he tracks his man all around the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mystery Story | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...acacia-shaded street beneath my window in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits echoes the cymbal-clashing and drumbeats of a parade of Chinese dancers noisily celebrating the i yoth birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. In the hotel lobby a Chinese bride & groom have just posed for wedding pictures in the Chinese fashion: five austere black-gowned male relatives held the center of the portrait; the pretty bride in her white gown and the groom in his new black suit and wing collar were in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REPORT ON CHINA | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...GROOM Bristow, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Walter Winchell's blonde, 18-year-old actress-daughter Eileen-known to her friends as Walda, known professionally as Toni Eden-pulled a surprise wedding on her usually alert father. The groom: William Lawless, 29, art-student son of a retired Boston motorman. Next day Winchell reported the event with characteristic aplomb: "First man to scoop Walter Winchell in a long time is William Lawless. . . .'' Two days later, father scooped son-in-law by announcing that daughter had decided to annul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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