A BUXOM BRIDE
QUESTIONABLE “RAG” PARSONS AND BAGPIPES. LONDON, March 7. Taking advantage of the prayer book revision, Cambridge Undergraduates, in the presence of hundreds of people, who braved the rain, staged a “rag,” in which they celebrated a mock marriage under the new rules, says the * ‘ Star. ’ ’ A buxom bride, dressed in white lace curtains, unusually displaying “her” charms and holding a tiny sunshade over “her” insignificant bridegroom, rode in a four-wheeler, accompanied by a yelling mother-in-law and a father drinking from a bottle. Bridesmaids on foot were appropriately costumed, while a nurse wheeling twins in a perambulator, was followed by a vanload of parsons singing hymns accompanied by bagpipes. The undergraduates mounted a passing Girton ’bug and sang the “Frothblowers’ Anthem.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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123A BUXOM BRIDE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19787, 10 March 1927, Page 7
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