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...last week. New York City reported that marriage licenses were going boom. In the first half of 1941 the city issued 38,918 permits to marry-10,015 more than in the first half of 1940. If the boom zooms, 1941 will be New York City's most nuptial year in history, bigger even than 1917, which turned in 76,149 legal weddings...
...sought to bury an old Lambs actor, he was turned down by the snooty rector of a Fifth Avenue church, who loftily suggested that he "try the little church around the corner." Ever since, the "little church" has enjoyed most of The Lambs' (and the theatre's) nuptial and funeral trade...
...throaty account of their first meeting: "I was in a tight spot, but I managed to wiggle out of it." She also fakes a marriage with Cuthbert J. Twillie (W. C. Fields) because she thinks his bag of fake money is real, substitutes a goat for herself in the nuptial chamber when she finds...
Then roared the crowds their deeply awed approval. Women fainted in the passion of their admiration. The fairest offered him their nuptial beds. All thought him Thor, the puissant god of war. For none before had crossed ve Harvard Square...
...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...