Word: honeymooned
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...last week competitive bitterness was too strong. Individual Eastern advertisements, however, follow the new trend. New York Central enticingly depicts a Repeal club-car scene ("There's more to the 20th Century than 17-hour speed"). Sauciest 1935 copy was published by up-&-coming Chesapeake & Ohio: a honeymoon couple in a lower berth, captioned "Here you are, Conductor-the certificate and two tickets on The George Washington...
...dead as a slaughtered chicken (see p. 13). But this great blow to the New Deal's most enthusiastic experiment was not as personal as the blow which the nine Justices, with equal unanimity, dealt at the authority which he assumed in the days of his White House honeymoon...
...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...
...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...
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...