Word: honeymoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong way to begin a marriage is with a honeymoon. So says British Psychiatrist (and Member of Parliament) Reginald Bennett in The Practitioner: "The honeymoon is an ordeal. More often than not it is a ghastly disappointment, and one whose personal humiliations no excuses ... can mitigate. All too often the girl, if she had been a good girl has lacked any semblance of learning in what to expect ... The naughty girl has gradually learned through experiment. So the wages of sin is serenity and the wages of virtue-shock, plus a married life endangered from the start . ._ " [After] the sheer...
...honeymoon at Brighton in 1892, Clayton hired the public baths for two days so that his "Lorelei" could "swim up and down alone, naked, her long red hair, which when uncoiled reached her knees, trailing in the water behind her." But in a short two years all the romance had gone from their marriage. When Elinor confided to Clayton that a friend of his had the gall to kiss her, she was heartbroken to hear her husband chuckle. "Did he? Good old Brookie!" Clayton was ardent only for a male heir. When Elinor presented him with a second daughter...
...Boulevard and then to the movies. Eventually, the Knight daughters prodded Goodie into taking Virginia on more romantic evenings, and in time, says Virginia, "he finally took a look at me. Up to then, he had just been talking to me." Goodie and Virginia were married last summer. Their honeymoon, on a borrowed yacht off Catalina Island, was hectic...
Within four days, Goodie called the honeymoon off, raced back to the convention. "I hardly saw him at all," lamented the bride. But Virginia Knight recovered in time to compose a poem, which Goodie used as a campaign song...
Then old Henry started taking bids for a 535-room hotel, 35 honeymoon cottages (each with private pool), 200 low-budget hotel rooms and 100 cabanas on his new beach site. If and when the government builds H.J. his island, he will rent it from the government and spend another $50 million there for hotels, an aquarium, convention hall and theater. Even then he does not intend really to rest. On the Kona coast 200 miles southeast of Waikiki, Kaiser plans to spend $40 million for hotels, a yacht basin, hillside homes, fishing boats. Said he: "There...