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Word: nuptials (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gamboling Lambs | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/10/1940 | See Source »

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