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  2. Charles Allan Gilbert - Wikipedia

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    Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator.He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity.

  3. No Room for the Groom - Wikipedia

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    No Room for the Groom is a 1952 American comedy film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don DeFore and Spring Byington. [1] The screenplay is based on the novel "My True Love" by Darwin Teilhet .

  4. Groom (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Groom of the Great Chamber, a junior nobleman in attendance (who would customarily also serve as King's Messenger) Groom of the Privy Chamber, a junior nobleman in attendance in the Chamber; Groom of the Robes; Groom of the Stool, later named Groom of the Stole, the senior nobleman in attendance in the King's Bedchamber

  5. Groom (profession) - Wikipedia

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    A groom or stable boy (stable hand, stable lad) is a person who is responsible for some or all aspects of the management of horses and/or the care of the stables themselves. The term most often refers to a person who is the employee of a stable owner, but an owner of a horse may perform the duties of a groom, particularly if the owner only ...

  6. Here Comes the Groom (1951 film) - Wikipedia

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    Here Comes the Groom is a 1951 American musical romantic comedy film produced and directed by Frank Capra and starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. Based on a story by Robert Riskin and Liam O'Brien , the film is about a foreign correspondent who has five days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

  7. Temperance (virtue) - Wikipedia

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    It is generally characterized as the control over excess, and expressed through characteristics such as chastity, modesty, humility, self-regulation, hospitality, decorum, abstinence, and forgiveness; each of these involves restraining an excess of some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger. In classical iconography, the virtue is ...

  8. Groomsman - Wikipedia

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    A best man and a maid of honour with newlyweds. The best man is the chief assistant to the groom at a wedding. While the role is older, the earliest surviving written use of the term best man comes from 1782, observing that "best man and best maid" in the Scottish dialect are equivalent to "bride-man and bride-maid" in England.

  9. Crossword - Wikipedia

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    An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...