Word: honeymooner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public alike had been indignant over the plight of 15 Russian women who had married British servicemen. Some were the wives of captains and sergeants. One was the wife of Brigadier Gordon Redvers Way, chief of the British military mission to Tiflis in 1942. After a three-day honeymoon in Tiflis, Way was ordered to Cairo, has not seen his wife since. Most of the wives were young and comely, and all were anxious to join their husbands. But the Soviet Government refused them exit visas...
...question-mark Brooklyn Dodgers rolled north by ship and Pullman. They looked neither bad nor good, only perplexed. One of their deepest perplexities was the conduct of their manager, Leo Durocher. A bridegroom for the third time, he was acting as if he had never been on a honeymoon before. Some days he hadn't even showed up for practice. Other days, chewing gum thoughtfully, he spent most of the time gazing up at his screen-actress bride, Laraine Day, sitting in a box and chewing...
...queen (Tallulah Bankhead) has been living secludedly, half in love with easeful Death, for the ten years since her young husband was assassinated on their honeymoon. But she and the poet (Helmut Dantine) who has now come to assassinate her, fall madly in love. He rouses her to life, prompts her to assert her will in her conspiracy-ridden kingdom, then cowers at the thought that their love cannot last. Finding that he has taken poison, the queen goads him into shooting...
...seemed to care least how much he spent was rival Movie Tycoon Harry M. Warner. He bought the apple of L.B.'s eye, a soft-eyed filly named Honeymoon, for $135,000. Then Warner, afflicted with the same fever Mayer once had, paid the evening's top price-$200,000-for Stepfather, a Kentucky Derby hopeful...
...retreat from tomboyishness began when she married cauliflower-eared George Zaharias, a 300-lb. wrestler. The bride gave up baseball (she could throw farther than most big-league outfielders) and winning track meets singlehanded. The bridegroom, shortly after the honeymoon, quit being, a wrestler...