Word: honeymoon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beverly Hills a woman patient asked her doctor for a prescription for a popular tranquilizing drug. The pills, she explained, were for her daughter, who needed them to get through the trying first week of her honeymoon. In Boston a sunburned blonde asked her druggist for a bottle of "happiness pills." Said she: "I just got back from Florida, and everybody down there gets them...
...Eisenhower. There have been sporadic grumbles from pro-Ike editors over isolated issues or personalities, but in essence the predominant segment of the press that went for Eisenhower four years ago has stayed with him enthusiastically and uncomplainingly. But if the pro-Ike Cleveland Plain Dealer is right, "The honeymoon is over." For the first time, a general murmur of complaint is rolling across the pro-Administration editorial pages. The editors think the budget should be cut, and they are disturbed because Ike will not cut it-but not so disturbed as to suggest any appreciable slippage in the President...
...honeymoon is over," snapped the Republican Cleveland Plain Dealer. Said pro-Eisenhower Publisher John S. Knight in the Detroit Free Press: "President Eisenhower's popularity should not suggest that he is immune from criticism." Texas' San Angelo Standard-Times, which backed Ike in 1952 and 1956, complained: "The Administration has not only gone back on its promise of government economy, it is not entirely frank with the people." Across the U.S. last week, Ike-minded newspapers raised voices in the first general criticism since the Eisenhower Administration took office in 1953. The chief cause was the familiar cause...
...teeth of the storm, royal spokesmen issued a firm denial of any rift between the Queen and her consort. This week Elizabeth plans to fly to Lisbon to join her husband for two days before they pay a state visit to Portugal. Soon the headlines were foreseeing a second honeymoon. In preparation the Duke shaved off the reddish, roguish beard he had cultivated during a six-week whisker-growing contest aboard the Britannia...
Looking uncharacteristically jowly, Nobel Prizewinning Poet T. S. (The Waste Land) Eliot, 68, arrived at London Airport after a flight from his three-week honeymoon hideout on the French Riviera. At T.S.'s side was his second wife (his first died in 1947), Valerie Fletcher Eliot, 30, a shining inspiration to millions of secretaries dearly hoping to marry their bosses...