Word: adieu
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Begun amid confusion and great expectations, this long-awaited weekend bids couples adieu, wishes' them bigger and better blasts, and slyly smiles that all has been a success...
...ADIEU TO THE WHOLE SWINDLING RING...
...Williams ever becomes President, I am going to bid America adieu, and set sail for Lower Patagonia on a cake of Ivory soap...
...trouble imagining that the mud pond back of the Streits' four-room frame house was the Atlantic Ocean. As an adolescent, he was an addict of romantic poetry and loved to quote Sir Walter Scott ("The train from out the castle drew, but Marmion stopped to bid adieu"). He was a formidable family arguer, once suffered a whipping by father Louis Streit, farm-machinery salesman and country fiddler, for arguing so long and loudly in bed that he kept the rest of the Streit brood (two brothers, two sisters) awake half the night. The weapon father Streit used...
Billy Rose had already given five columns worth of detailed advice to the Metropolitan Opera Association on how to cure its ills (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week, he tossed off some parting general prescriptions, called them his "fond adieu to the fair land of Culture and Confusion...