Word: honeymooner
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They recalled that the late, rich Quintin Hogg greatly interested himself in welfare work among poor children, as did his prospective bride. Therefore, in words once uttered by the Present Lord High Chancellor: "We have a family legend that when father and mother went on their honeymoon they took with them 30 ragged boys from London. Mother spent most of her time fielding point while the boys were learning to play cricket...
...some $25,000 worth of real estate in France and the rights to her book, My Life. Her will was filed last week in Manhattan by her adopted daughter, Irma. It had been written six years ago in Moscow, just before she left by airplane for Paris on a honeymoon. At the chance suggestion of a friend, she scribbled it in pencil on a page torn out of a little notebook. It said: "This is my last will and testament. In case of my death I leave my entire property to my husband, Serge Yessenin. In case of simultaneous death...
...such stuff are the women made that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...
William Randolph Hearst Jr., 20, returned from, his honeymoon, began work on his father's favorite newspaper, the New York American, as a cub reporter. Said he: "This is no stunt...
...York Herald Tribune published last week "Main Streets" of Britain in which Novelist Lewis recounts that on his honeymoon he has observed...