Word: honeymoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish-American opera singer, perfumer, feminist, whose four previous husbands had owned fortunes totaling $125,000,000; to Harry Grindell-Matthews, 57, inventor of the "death ray," which knocked out a cow 200 yards distant at its first British War Office tests; in London. The bride went on her honeymoon alone, while the investor rushed to his Clydach, Wales laboratory (fenced with electrified wire) to perfect an aerial torpedo...
...bustling, sensible little volume that tells brides what size sheets to buy (108 in. by 90 for a double bed), what furniture and what frame of mind are best suited for setting up housekeeping. Miss Wiley believes that one of the big troubles with marriage is the honeymoon. She draws a terrible picture of bride & groom rushing about getting ready for the wedding, buying things, getting nervous and exhausted and then having to start on a trip. "Where is the ecstasy?" she asks gloomily. "Where the bliss?" She also thinks that no bride should ever be heard saying, "I wish...
...David Dubinsky told them: "We do not believe that our withdrawal from the C. I. O. would benefit the cause of unity and peace. . . . But it is our definite conviction that peace will ultimately have to be established in the labor movement. . . . The C. I. O. has passed its honeymoon period...
...year-old Boston accountant named Stuart Chase took his bride on a strange honeymoon. They poked through slums, pretended to be pitiful specimens of the unemployed, checking up on working conditions in sweatshops. The natural result was not a baby but a book. Stuart Chase, who thus unconventionally introduced his bride to facts he considered fundamental, has spent his life introducing himself and his growing public to facts of deeper & deeper import. Primarily a popularizer of other men's ideas, Author Chase expresses each new enthusiasm in startling journalese. Without the authority of the learned or the wise...
Settling in Manhattan after their honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. "John King Roosa Jr., Republicans, learned that their telephone number (Rhinelander 4-7428) had once belonged to the town house of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Came calls for Roosevelts, servants, secretaries. James Roosevelt rang up. A friend of Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to apologize frantically for being late because she had left theatre tickets at home. Last week, after Manhattan newspapers publicized the number, harassed Mrs. Roosa ordered the telephone disconnected, went on a trip. For hunting duck over baited fields near Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their...