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...Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must marry Ichabod Crane, because in the van Tassel family the eldest daughter must wed a schoolmaster or be carried off by a ghost...
Before he died he had given his son Joseph $1,000,000 as a Harvard graduation present (1891), seen him almost corner the U. S. wheat market and lose $9,750,000 (1898), become a famed horse racer and sportsman. He had seen his daughter Mary wed a Britisher who became Lord Curzon, and Viceroy of India. He had seen his daughter Marguerite marry another English title, become the Countess of Suffolk & Berkshire, and his daughter Nancy pick as her second husband Lieutenant Colonel Colin Powys Campbell of the British Army...
...purpose of the bill is to enable a spouse who has been frustrated by the jailing or shutting up of the other spouse in an insane asylum to cite this as grounds for divorce and eventually wed again. "This bill would launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot see the end!" cried the high church Marquess of Salisbury. "There is not even any definition in this bill of either 'desertion' or 'incurable insanity' " although it would make them grounds for divorce, and the Marquess went on in his opposition...
...which already required Wasserman tests of males and which last week extended the requirement to females. As if Illinois' antivenereal restrictions weren't enough the State this week awaited its Governor's signature to a law requiring posting of three days' notice of intent to wed...
While Waukegan's marrying parsons lamented last week, the wedding racketeers of Elkton, Md. gloated. Led by Elkton's famed Marriage-Parlorist William ("Pop") Cann, Maryland's taxi-drivers had beaten a June 30 deadline on a new Maryland marriage law. Although this law, requiring a 48-hr. interim between applying for a license and being wed, took effect June 1, Maryland's Constitution permits the lifting and postponement of its laws by public petition within 30 days. The law is then submitted to popular referendum at the next election of U. S. Representatives.*Maryland taximen...