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...dowry instead of the usual expensive outlay for bridal clothes and marriage feasts. Four hundred bridegrooms took advantage of the cut rate. They faced their brides' proxies (the brides' fathers) and took the marriage vows. While the absent, newlywed wives waited expectantly at home, the menfolk took off to pub-crawl the cafés of flag-decked Omdurman, to feast, sing and dance...
...Munkacsy's Last Day of the Condemned (with a dozen relatives of the shackled prisoner in carefully composed attitudes of curiosity and grief), Thomas Hovenden's Breaking Home Ties (a gloomy, gawky boy, hat in hand, enduring a last, long look from his mother while the menfolk wait to take him to the depot), and John Henry Lorimer's Mariage de Convenance (in which a weeping, heavily veiled bride collapses in her room, deaf to the happy chirps of two little bridesmaids who have come to fetch her down). They generally admired Romney's pink-cheeked...
...plain white wooden coffins placed in neat rows on the floor of the shed. I remember men, women & children running in all directions, colliding, pushing, returning to where they started, and sweating gendarmes guarding the pit gates against the shrieking, weeping, hysterical crowd which knew that hundreds of its menfolk were condemned to slow death, entombed beneath the earth...
...That British women dress as dully as they cook, and let their menfolk dominate them...
Home Is the Hunter. In Eddington, Me., the menfolk returned empty-handed from a day's hunting to find that Mrs. Willard K. Hillier, 70, had bagged a bear in her backyard...