Word: honeymooner
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...credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...Honeymoon (RKO Radio) provides a grown-up role for Shirley Temple (who in private life is now a settled matron of 18). In the film, Shirley goes to Mexico City to meet, marry and spend a honeymoon with G.I. Guy Madison, who is on leave from the Canal Zone. They have a hard time finding each other and, tied up by legal complications, an even harder time getting married. The hardest time of all is had by Franchot Tone, a U.S. consulate workhorse who is repeatedly required to help them out. In the course of getting helped, Miss Temple transfers...
...Honeymoon has its entertaining moments, but something goes wrong with the farcical frenzy the leading players are supposed to whip up. The character Miss Temple plays is presented as if she were just too terribly cute, whereas she is actually playing a spoiled brat who has yet to learn that the world is not her oyster. Mr. Madison, pouting perpetually, matches her for infantilism and bad manners, point for point; and they talk a jive dialect in which one of the most intelligible words is "jeepers." Those who find such types attractive will get a lot of laughs. In spite...
...watt memory ought to recognize this old eye-popper. Some may recall it as a favorite parlor puzzle a decade or two ago. The late Alexander Woollcott published a breathless version in which the missing person is an elderly woman; in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' The End of Her Honeymoon (1914) it is a young husband. All are variations on the same theme: a victim vanishes, leaving no sign of his existence; in feverish haste his hotel room is refurnished, repapered or walled off. The hotelkeeper (sometimes it is the police) has reason to dispose of the victim without alarming...
Sixty Telegrams. It was a riotous marriage. The newlyweds sailed for Europe with the ceiling of their honeymoon stateroom blanketed with orchids. After one tempestuous quarrel Evalyn chartered a yacht, left her husband. He sent her 60 consecutive telegrams begging forgiveness, and she came back. One day at Carder's, McLean spent $154,000 on a present which was to be inseparably linked with her name for the rest of her life-the baleful, blue Hope Diamond, which had supposedly brought death or disaster to all who had owned...