Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nelson Rockefeller, 39-year-old elder brother of groom-of-the-year Winthrop, won a citation from the National Conference of Christians and Jews, for nice work in the field of human relations...
After the ceremony, the wedding party listened to Negro spirituals, sung by a choir on the lawn. After the wedding breakfast, bride & groom set out for a honeymoon in a rented automobile...
Like Peanuts. In Manhattan, when Sylvia Davenport's groom disappeared, she hired a sleuth who presently found the missing groom around the corner, getting married again...
...tired of hate, they need to think of love; they are tired of evil, they need to think of goodness." With shrewd economy she appraised the guests: "shabby top hats, shabby fur coats, fine and disciplined faces . . . the people that open bazaars," the bride, "white as marble," the groom, "like many a bridegroom before him, greenish white in complexion . . . almost podgy with solemnity." She thrilled to the fanfare of trumpets that heralded the bride: "like a shower of shooting stars on a winter sky expressed in sound...
...woman's angle" was covered with grim intensity. Because Hollywood's Cobina Wright Sr. was an old pal of the groom, Cobina got an invitation to the wedding-the only one on his list to a private U.S. citizen. She coolly capitalized on it by signing up with Hearst's International News Service. I.N.S. hardly got its money's worth. At a Palace reception, she was so overwhelmed by all that jewelry "that I can scarcely remember so much as the color or cut of a single gown...