Word: nuptials
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...refused to marry him. James Blakeley, looking for Ida Lupino, his fiancee, enlists the help of Lynne Overman, magnificent as a member of the Sûreté. Things build to a spacious and impressively scored wedding night in a chateau with a large cast of serfs singing nuptial choruses regardless of the fact that neither woman is with the right man, and neither is married...
...Governor James Michael Curley of Massachusetts, "First Lady of the Commonwealth"; and Lieut.-Colonel Edward Calvin Donnelly, Boston adman; by William Cardinal O'Connell at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. First State wedding in Massachusetts history, surrounded by the pomp & panoply of a royal nuptial, the ceremony was witnessed by 3,000 persons including twelve blushing policemen in hired cutaways, striped trousers, silk hats, ascot ties, grey spats and puce-colored vests...
...know too that the University is one of our most satisfactory advertisers. I know that our Business Manager, the one who is taking initial pre-nuptial steps, hopes and prays that the Playgoer is going to be satisfied each week with the University pictures. I know too that the National Student League will be only too delighted to here this that the CRIMSON is a tool of capital, controlled by its advertisers...
...City Hall an impressive nuptial altar had been raised to no God or gods but to Dr. Sun Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and as holy to China as Lenin is to Russia. Between pack-jammed ranks of 1,200 neck-craning relatives, 57 couples advanced with diffidence, two couples at a time. Mayor Wu, officiating, encouraged each bride and groom to bow thrice to a statue of Dr. Sun, twice to each other and once to Mayor Wu. He then handed to each bridegroom a satisfying certificate done in multi-colored inks and the marriage was complete...
...second marriage, necessitated by Marina's Greek Orthodox faith, solid gold vessels and nuptial crowns were provided in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. Undisclosed was the emolument of gorgeously robed and perfumed Archimandrite Germanos for his "Oh Lord our God, crown them with glory and honor...