Word: nuptials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning they had received Holy Communion. In the Wind sor Hotel they ate breakfast, signed marriage registers. On the baseball field they heard a sermon by Most Rev. George's Gauthier, Archbishop-Coadjutor of Montreal. A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives. Then, in 105 automobiles lent by General Motors of Canada, Ltd., the couples drove to St. Helen's Island, where they ate with 3,000 friends and relations, were given rosaries, crucifixes and photographs of Pope Pius...
...file papers on the basis of which an Austrian court immediately declared legitimate the son which the bride bore the bridegroom three years ago. The annulment of the Prince's earlier marriage was on the ground that he and his first Princess made and kept a pre-nuptial pact to have no children. Thus the child which was a bastard for three years now is a legitimate Prince von Starhemberg, aristocratic to his baby fingertips...
...date. For weeks San Antonio had been titillated by Janice Jarratt's talk of the 3,000 invitations she had broadcast over the country, of the cinema celebrities who might attend, of her plans to have the wedding photographed for the newsreels. After a gay round of pre-nuptial parties at which ex-G-Man Purvis was especially polite to other San Antonio belles, the couple met one afternoon in the St. Anthony Hotel lobby, tiffed about her lateness for the appointment, parted. Said she: "I'll see you later...
...successor, Mr. Hurley, has delivered himself of several promising statements regarding expenditure and other state matters. Such talk may be little more than pre-nuptial fantasy, but at any rate the citizens of the state can rest assured that he will not sink to the Curley level. Mr. Curley can depart in peace, sure that his leave-taking will be unwept, unhonored, and unsung in local history, except by writers of verse with unusually long and scurrilous memories...
Although still pressing as many Germans as possible to wed, the Government last week decided to save as much nuptial gold as possible, decreed that in Germany no wedding ring can be sold of a quality purer than 8 carat gold. Since pure gold is 24 carat, an 8-carat ring would be exactly two thirds base metal...