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Word: honeymooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...admittedly Bourbon as the Association of Manufacturers such an attitude is surprising. Through the dreariest days of the past winter, with the castles of Rooseveltism crashing down about our ears, the voices against the social reform side of the President's program have been distinctly gentle. Although the Roosevelt honeymoon may be coming to an end, the President's program for social security has met with cheering sympathy on all sides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMANDMENTS FROM THE MOUNT | 4/30/1935 | See Source »

...situation worse. Mrs. Cromwell turned the conversation to the Mahatma's campaign against Untouchability, which she said impressed her. Suddenly a messenger burst in to say that the leaderless conference was becoming unruly. Gandhi excused himself. Doris Duke Cromwell & husband started for Bombay to resume their honeymoon. A United Pressman quoted her as saying: "I felt, in meeting this world-famous advocate of peace and nonviolence, that I had talked to a Messiah, comparable to Confucius, Buddha, Christ or Mohammed. There seemed an amazing paradox in this Hindu Messiah's opposition to what he felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

Greta's honeymoon was as queer as her courtship was sudden. Her Irish bridegroom, Sandy, had a way with women and a gift of gab, but the police were after him. On the little Polish steamer in which Sandy and Greta made their getaway from Ireland was a mysterious party of five Englishmen. Leader was Andrew, brilliant bachelor Oxford don, who hid his heroic light under a staid bushel. Andrew was the type of true adventurer, as Sandy was of the shoddy. The expedition's real purpose was not, as given out, to search for butterflies along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Insomniac Hero | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...ancestral estates have always had more honors than cash behind them. The pair spent their honeymoon in a Lake Ontario log cabin. Lord Edward returned to serve gallantly through the War with the Irish Guards, go bankrupt in 1918 owing ?300,000. Already separated from his chorus girl Duchess, he succeeded to the Dukedom in 1922. To recoup his fortunes the Duke of Leinster sold stock in himself as "The Dukedom of Leinster Estates, Inc." The Duchess fell in love with a 26-year-old cook named Stanley Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gaiety Duchess | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

When an airplane lands at Catalina Island with a honeymoon couple, a movie director, and Miss Oliver among its occupants, one of the other passengers is found to have died on route. Miss Oliver, refusing to accept heart failure as an explanation, sets out to discover which one of her fellow-passengers is guilty of the murder. As a lady-detective, she has to cope with a disappearing body, a poison flask, poison cigarettes, and James Gleason, a New York cop who is her partner in detection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

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