From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Getting married and unmarried!"  From Motion Picture Classic, 1923.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Weddings that never happened!"  From Movie Classic, 1931.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Marriage -- benefit by my mistakes."  From Purple Parrot, 1946.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

We hear too little about how a game of chess can save a marriage.  Note the near-subliminal symbolism here -- he's pinching his queen's nub.  From The Instructor, 1959.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From Rockford College's 1923 yearbook.

"You're his wife ... who's his girlfriend?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From Scribner's 1875.

From Together magazine, 1967.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"'I wish he were dead,' her father said in a harsh and bitter tone."  From Lighted Pathway, 1949.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

Fake news from 1982: "Royal couple lives happily ever after."  From Central Michigan University's 1982 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.

From The Couple Who Became Each Other by David L. Calof.

From Nebelspalter, 1931.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

"Married on death bed."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

From L'Oeil de la Police, 1909.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.