Word: honeymooner
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...Livernois Avenue, capital of the used-car world, things got so bad that 20 dealers closed down. Dealers hoped for a revival next spring, but one said sadly: "The customer will never again pay more for a used car than for a new one. This time the honeymoon is really over...
Adding up the payload for a single westbound flight, Pilot Stewart finds on his bill of lading: the blonde, who is a truant from her honeymoon, an escaping embezzler (Porter Hall), a G.I. and his bride, a corpse, a shipment of whitefish, some live lobsters and a cigar-smoking chimpanzee. Before the flight has ended, the passengers have jounced through a forced landing (made partly because of weather, partly to pick up a few rustic gags from amiable Farmer Percy Kilbride, who keeps the New England accent flying in darkest Oklahoma), and reached several forced decisions...
...finally comes around when the honeymoon is over. It was over for me in the Ritz bar one hour after the Cornell game. For the team, it wasn't a honeymoon on the long train ride from Ithaca to Cambridge. It wasn't a welcome home for Paul O'Brien, Sam Butler, and Ralph Bender when I ignored them at the Monday morning eleven o'clock because I blamed them for letting Cornell backs get through the center of the line. I forgot that they were playing their first year of varsity ball...
...back her claim, she produced two witnesses, one of whom testified that Dr. Frevert had called the 1946 trip to Texas a "honeymoon." The second witness--a cousin of Miss Schulz--declared that Frevert spoke of getting married on the excursion...
Coward's tale of a divorced couple who meet again on their second honeymoon, fly their new mates, and let fly (between endearments) at each other, once seemed as faintly decadent as chain-smoking. In the Bankhead version, it is as strenuous as football. Miss Bankhead, between moments of dreamy ladylikeness during which she is probably catching her breath, coils, snarls, pounces, crunches her lines, turns throbbing baritone, and in general portrays what appears to be the love of Mt. Vesuvius for a mortal...