Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Manhattan newspapers reported such a marriage. The bride was Anne Mather, an heiress to a Cleveland iron-ore fortune and a descendant of New England's old Puritan Cotton Mather. The groom was Frank Curie Montero, a director of the Urban League Fund, whom she had met in social-welfare work...
...York Herald Tribune, which does not identify Negroes (in crime or general news stories), reported the impending marriage in a conventional little society note tucked away on page 6. It did not mention the race of bride or groom...
Figure of Fun. For a time Queen Victoria had a taste for Tupper's poetry. When the Princess Royal married Prince Frederick of Prussia, she commanded lyrics from Tupper, and ordered him to the palace to present the bride & groom with specially bound copies of Proverbial Philosophy. The bard got a private audience and passed the books direct from his own common paws into the royal hands. He was told it was an honor that had been done to only one other British writer-George III was once as gracious to Dr. Samuel Johnson. Americans were impressed with Tupper...
...Meter. In Upton, England, the Rev. Sidney Clarence Jones warned that henceforth any bride who keeps her impatient groom waiting at the altar will be fined a shilling (14?) a minute after the first 5 minutes...
...town near Cali a wedding was being celebrated when police forced their way into the church, arresting the pastor and beating up the bride, groom and some of those in attendance . . . The pastor had to escape from the town at night in disguise...