Word: nuptials
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fair Deal. In Bath, England, temporary clerks in the admiralty office campaigned for the same six-day honeymoon leaves as their permanent coworkers, solemnly contended: "The nuptial responsibilities of temporary and established grades are equally grave...
...morning last week, when a priest came to unlock the grillwork for an 11 a.m. nuptial Mass, the crowns were gone. In the night, thieves had sawed out a section of the grille, reached in for the famous crowns. All that remained were a few diamonds and a broken piece of mounting, wrenched loose but left forgotten on the floor of Mary's shrine...
Marriage Reported: Svetlana Dzhugashvili, 26, redheaded daughter of Joseph Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin; and Mikhail Kaganovich, son of Lazar Kaganovich, longtime Politburo member and Stalin's brother-in-law; in Moscow, July 3. British and Swiss newspapers said the nuptial feast in the Kremlin lasted a fortnight, with refreshments served on Czarist gold plate and sped with pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian peach brandy and vodka. Cost...
...Agnew and was given a pink slip. "Is that all?" asked the Earl, obviously rather astounded. "That's all," said the judge. Beaming, the Earl left, told newsmen he was now married, and departed with Mildred for a Tacoma motel which had been chosen as the type of nuptial chamber most suitable for one in the Earl's financial condition. "Her ladyship hasn't enough money for hotels," he explained...
...Italy, a species of ants known as Myrmica scabrinodis, which for centuries past at this season have come to mate in nuptial flight and die by the billions near the shrine of the Madonna of the Mountain of the Ants, largely forsook their Madonna and swarmed and died instead at a Communist festival in a village on the slope. "It is," cried one Communist, "the effect of the Pope's excommunication decree...