Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to the stories told, before his abdication Carol had built a royal hunting lodge costing 150,000,000 lei ($780,000), and stables costing 400,000,000 lei ($2,080,000). In these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom had a three-room, electrically heated apartment, the horses themselves stood or lay on expensive mattresses. For her part, Mme. Lupescu had whimsically ordered many buildings in Bucharest torn down simply because she disliked their looks. Before he left Bucharest for a trip to Rome last week Rumania...
...longtime friend, Manhattan Real-Estate Tycoon William Vincent Astor, 48, inheritor of $65,000,000 from his father, John Jacob Astor; she for the first time, he for the second; quietly, in Easthampton, L. I. Divorced three weeks ago in Cody, Wyo. by first-wife Helen Dinsmore Huntington, 46, Groom Astor and bride last week sailed for a honeymoon aboard his $1,000,000 Nourmahal, on which he often entertained his Dutchess County neighbor Franklin Roosevelt during Term...
Unfortunately, for dentistry, the bride got pretty sore at this toothy folderol during rehearsal, accused her beloved of being more eager to advertise his wares than her charms. At that point the groom slapped the bride. The bride retaliated in kind, and also refused to go through with the nuptials until all references to dentures were eliminated from the ceremony. Eventually she had her way. The course of television love met further obstacles. Before the bride arrived at the studio altar, in came Fan Dancer Faith Bacon. Clad in a brassiere and a G-string, with feathers in her hair...
...Bridegroom Hazen, Miss Padelford was only occasionally visible on the television screen. Municipal Judge Joseph Marchetti, who performed the ceremony, was inundated with confetti (rice will not televise) by a prop man with deplorable aim. After the service, while the organ moaned through Lohengrin, relatives of the bride and groom made a mad rush to congratulate the newlyweds...
...Groom, Tex., after a two-month drought, Mayor Frank Koetting manifestoed in the Groom News: "Groom is facing a water shortage and by damn I mean a water shortage. I am asking every man, woman and child to help save water. Let's all go back to the old practice of less modern ways. Let's visit the old two-holers. If you don't have a two-holer, borrow your neighbor...