Word: grooming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alben W. Barkley, 72, and his 38-year-old Missouri bride spent four days in Manhattan that allowed them little time for private handholding. But the groom's suave old politician's charm delighted newsmen, and the bride's trousseau enchanted the photographers. Arriving from their "Shangrila" retreat in Sea Island, Ga., they went their own ways for a while on their first night in town. The Veep showed up at a stag dinner of thoroughbred racers and wowed both the turfmen and the television audience by remarking: "In order to be here I interrupted...
...bride was composed, the groom was nervous and muffed his lines. In St. John's Methodist Church in St. Louis before a gathering in which newsmen outnumbered relatives two to one, Vice President Alben Barkley married Mrs. Carleton S. Hadley. She is 38; he will be 72 this week...
...Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, to marry pretty Marion Stein, whose father fled from Vienna in 1938 because he was part Jewish. On their wedding day last week, well-wishers by the thousands thronged the streets outside St. James's Palace for a glimpse of the young groom, who met his bride, an ambitious pianist, at a music festival at Aldeburgh. Others flocked to Kensington to mill about the streets outside the bride's own modest third-story flat and to coo at one another over the wonder of this sad-eyed Cinderella who was to marry...
...start work on a new film by the end of the year. Back at the party, Rita sank down next to the old Aga Khan. "Too much caviar, Rita," he murmured, "too much caviar." International News Service's starry-eyed Louella Parsons heaved a final sigh. The groom, she reported, "wearying but still buoyant, dropped on one knee and, with old-world gallantry, kissed her [Rita's] slipper...
Other backs who showed promise were Bill Healey, a wingback, and Charley Walsh, the only man the coaches saw fit to groom as a quarterback...