Word: nuptial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heath hens. Next year only three birds were left. After Dec. 8, 1928, there was only one heath-cock in all Martha's Vineyard. Wary, he was seldom seen far from the scrub oaks where he "used," but occasionally observers saw him perform his kind's famed nuptial dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known to boom before. Then he too disappeared and last summer Professor Alfred Otto Gross of Bowdoin...
Husbands in name, Hyderabad's two princes were hustled back to their hotel after the ceremony. They will not see their wives again until a nuptial reunion and Grand Durbar is staged in Hyderabad by their potent Papa...
...estate and to withhold distribution of the Ambassador's $600,000 estate. Charge (upheld in Pittsburgh Orphans' Court): that Ambassador Moore had "fraudulently acquired assets of his wife's estate while acting as executor thereof." Mrs. Calvit's claim to one-half the Moore estate, under an alleged pre-nuptial agreement between her mother and stepfather, will be adjudged after the estate has been accounted...
There is an ant queen of another species who, contemplating a nuptial flight, assembles a horde of worker-ants around her, carries them around on her strong legs to care for the children when they shall be born. The children are so numerous and tiny she cannot tend them herself...
...this reason accursed Mm. Daudet & Maurras came not as guests but as reporters, slyly laughed up their Royalist sleeves at Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano who performed the ceremony, imparted a nuptial blessing and celebrated low mass while Princess Isabelle quietly wept...