Word: wedlock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reform-urgers might have crusaded against even more lenient laws. In five southern states, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia, twelve-year-old girls may take the marriage vow with their parents' consent; in New Hampshire 13 years' experience of this world is considered sufficient for wedlock...
...Constant Wife?Ethel Barrymore in sophisticated comedy on love outside wedlock...
Therefore, the Calles womenfolk were in a delicate position, last week, on the eve of Senorita Natalia's wedding to Senor Carlos Herrera, a minor government official. Would big, burly Papa Calles insist that his daughter should have only a civil marriage, demand that she live out of wedlock in the eyes of Roman Catholics...
Papa-President Calles resisted tears, supplications. Senorita Natalia Calles was united in wedlock exclusively by the Mexican civil power. Then, on separate trains, the bride and bridegroom sped to San Antonio, Tex. At Mexico City the Papa-President clamped down his censorship, forbade Mexicans to print that at San Antonio a Mexican bride and groom achieved union through the Holy Roman Catholic Church...
...pondering and creating. In Jacob Wassermann there can be seen a great master in the very process of development. Each new book discovers him with a firmer grasp of the technique of his craft, with clearer vision of moral truth. Paradoxically, although it is not as great a book, "Wedlock" is a distinct improvement upon the "World's Illusion...