Word: honeymooner
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...inauguration parade had barely passed before Washington's pundits-both certified and curbstone varieties-were passing the word that President Eisenhower's honeymoon with Congress was over. When the House Committee on Government Operations voted to restrict the President's powers to reorganize Government departments (by giving the Congress power to overrule reorganization measures by a simple majority), predictions were freely made that things were even worse: it was the beginning of a bitter feud...
Thanks to the sale's Hollywood-like showmanship, prices soared to unheard-of highs; Harry Warner paid $200,000 for Stepfather and $135,000 for Honeymoon. In that and four subsequent sales, the Mayer horses were sold for $4,500,000, the biggest sum ever racked up by Finney' as announcer (i.e., sale manager) for New York's Fasig-Tipton...
...Denver finishing school, and could turn to the real and fascinating business of her young life: ruling her string of beaux. Then, on a family winter vacation in San Antonio, she met 2nd Lieut. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Nine months later, at 19, she was married. She went for a honeymoon visit with Eisenhower's parents in Abilene, Kans., had her marriage's first bitter quarrel - after Dwight refused, in flat tones, to come home until he had broken even in an all-night poker game. Soon after, she found herself keeping house in a two-room flat...
...said the three three-inch letters of the April 5, 1917 head-line, and the honeymoon was over. The publication struggled gamely on for the next 18 months--no one knows how--and then capitulated. Then the student body, much to everybody's surprise, began vigorously to clamor for what it had previously clamored so vehemently against, and the CRIMSON was resurrected as a weekly only 2o days after it had quit...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 35, cinemactress (Rebecca, Ivanhoe); and Collier Young, 44, Hollywood producer; both for the third time (her first: Actor Brian Aherne; his second: Cinemactress Ida Lupmo); after a slapstick beginning (he lost the license, she lost her trousseau, both missed their honeymoon plane); in Saratoga, Calif...