0 an organization that people join in order to find a partner, usually one that they can get married to
However, to all intents and purposes, it operated as a marriage bureau for educated and/or intelligent people.
It is a sort of marriage bureau with its own dowry system.
The marriage bureau was fined £375 and the widows received £100 each in compensation.
They visited what they described as "sympathetic" bureaux—those sympathetic to the cause of people seeking the service of a marriage bureau.
The unsatisfactory marriage bureau is a problem that we should face.
The marriage lasts happily for three years, husband and wife end up working in the marriage bureau in a home they adore.
If anything, the laws encouraged more passing, particularly in railroad stations, on trains and in marriage bureaus.
