Word: honeymoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quiet has been the revolution that has gripped the island of Madeira for the past month that elderly British ladies continued to totter round the gardens of resort hotels, to slide along the cobblestoned streets of Funchal in steel-runnered sledges drawn by bullocks. Honeymoon couples continued to play tennis. Last week the British cruisers London and Curlew slipped into Funchal harbor. Royal marines went ashore to throw a cordon round the three largest tourist hotels. British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution as best it could...
...then Mr. Ingram falls in love with his ward Trixie, a chronic flirt. Thereafter neither can trust the other. Even on their honeymoon they are tagged after by cast-off friends. And as the final curtain falls, although Mr. & Mrs. Ingram have settled their entanglemen's of the moment, one foresees for them a merry married life and a short...
Dancer Betty Compton (Oh, Kay! and Fifty Million Frenchmen), pretty friend of New York's Mayor Walker; was suddenly and secretly married to one Edward Duryea ("Eddie") Dowling some weeks ago. Last week she returned from the Havana honeymoon estranged from her new husband. They had found each other "incompatible" after two days. She planned a trip to California...
...White House. He summoned a special session of Congress to deal with farm relief and tariff revision. He exhorted the People to war against Crime. He began to appoint expert commissions to solve tough old problems. Everybody was heartily with him, as they are with most Presidents, during this "honeymoon" period of his Administration...
...professor at her nearby college. When Julie Borel, supposed daughter of a former governess, came to live with the Barnses, she and Tony took fire at sight. But neither had any money, so Tony married Pen. Julie might have had Nick Barnes, a rising surgeon and solid citizen, but honeymooning Tony still kept her fancy. Finally she took a chance on Nick, but stipulated a platonic union until she had laid Tony's ghost. When Tony and Pen came back from their long honeymoon abroad Julie found she could face her former idol without batting an eye; more, that...