Word: honeymoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into a tree out of Daisy Mae's reach. Another time, after Preacher Sam had completed the $1.25 ceremony (with "hootin' an' hollerin', catch-as-catch-can rasslin' . . . and several embarrassin' jokes told in a loud voice as yo' departs on yore honeymoon"), Li'l Abner was reprieved; his marriage license had expired. But this week the most unthinkable is happening. Man of Honor. As all Al Capp's "slobbering fans" know, Abner is a man of honor. When he joined a club honoring his comic-strip idol Detective Fearless Fosdick...
...first months after V-E Day, the Western allies in Germany, swallowing hard, bundled thousands of unwilling and sometimes struggling refugees from Communist domination into trains, and sent them back to death or slavery in Communist hands. The allies did this wicked thing to prolong the "honeymoon" with Soviet Russia. When Russia itself ended the honeymoon, the practice of involuntary repatriation stopped-to the vast relief of all men of good will...
Relaxed Hillbilly. A week later, Andy and Dave celebrated by getting married. The appropriate place was Davos, scene of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, where Dave had learned his skiing as a youngster. Their honeymoon included a trip West last summer, where Andy stayed in ski shape by heaving huge grain sacks, breaking a mare, and cooking chow for all hands at a Porcupine Gulch (Wyo.) ranch. Andy's admiring father-in-law, Laudy Lawrence, retired European manager for MGM, calls her a "regular hillbilly...
...Grand Manner. He lived magnificently. When Widower Williams married twice-divorced Mona Bush, a handsome Kentucky belle 24 years his junior, their honeymoon was spent on Williams' Warrior, then the world's largest yacht. He bought villas at Capri, Palm Beach, Long Island, Judge Gary's Fifth Avenue mansion and a Paris town house. Perennially, couturiers hailed Mona Williams as the best-dressed woman in the world...
...height of the U.S.-Soviet honeymoon, Washington lend-leased 710 vessels to the Soviets (585 naval, 96 merchant, 29 small craft). As the relationship chilled into cold war, the U.S. began demanding their return. To date, only 39 (including the icebreakers) have come back; 670 are still owed; one was lost...