Word: honeymooner
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Finally, "fully cognizant of the responsibility of marriage," the groom presents "evidence of military approval to officiating authority before marriage ceremony is performed." Then, if he still has a spark of life left, FEAF's young airman can start off on his honeymoon...
...months later, Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner were married (over Metro Mogul Louis B. Mayer's massive opposition). The studio sent a pressagent along on the honeymoon. "When you came down to breakfast, he was there," Ava recalls bitterly. "When you had your dinner, he was there. When you went to bed, he was damn near there." It was enough to make any husband jumpy. "On our wedding night," says Ava, "Mickey was so nervous. He kept writing letters to people and walking up and down...
...from her bank account, which she closed, and collected a check for $2,700 from her lawyer for the sale of property. Her husband, a tailor's presser named George Cecil Horry, announced that he was taking Mary Eileen to England. Instead, the couple left on a honeymoon trip to New Zealand's lonely Waitakere Mountains. The bride was never seen again...
...Remo, Italy, members of the honeymoon party bubbled with the news that 17-year-old Queen Narriman, who married Egypt's Playboy King Farouk last May, is expecting a child...
...year later he was elected to a seat (rarely to be occupied) in Congress, having run in a "safe" Tammany district. He celebrated by marrying Millicent Willson, from the chorus of The Girl From Paris. It was the snubs they suffered from stuffy upperclass Britons on their gala transatlantic honeymoon that helped turn him into an Anglophobe. (In 1930 it was France's turn. The French barred W.R. from their shores because a Hearstling had swiped the text of a secret Franco-British treaty. From then on, in the Hearst press, France was as perfidious as Albion...