Word: honeymooning
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...calling back and forth, the pygmies presented their visitors with fatted pig, and posed affably-like milk chocolate babies with ruddy fuzz on their polls-for reels and reels of cinema. They explained why their married women lacked a forefinger: it was chopped off by the husband, as a honeymoon salutation. Before chopping, the husband had to qualify in bravery by letting his intended's male relatives shoot at him with arrows, which he dodged and returned. . . . Flora, fauna and pioneer maps bulged the Stirling party's homebound luggage...
...fourth bride, assured the other servants that she would "still consider the members of the household my equals." Charles Edy Monroe, quinquagenarian, Mr. Savin's adopted son, apologized to newsgatherers for having imbibed a few too many "holiday spirits"; vouchsafed "You can say there will be no honeymoon trip...
...Honeymoon Lane. Eddie Dowling wrote the book, lyrics, music, and acts the leading role. His personal popularity is the show's greatest asset. So likable is Eddie that even the most churlish fellow finds himself shamed into trying to enjoy the production. That is not so hard, really, in spite of the sticky sentimentality that inevitably gums a musical comedy book about a country lad, a country lass, a dream, and a cottage at the end of Honeymoon Lane. It is easier to forget Eddie's slush because Florence O'Denishawn dances thru it all like...
Married. Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the late Jesse W. Smith,* to one Phillip E. Brast, oil operator; at Covington, Ky. While on her honeymoon she stopped in Manhattan to visit the trial of Harry Micajah Daugherty. Two years ago she had testified against the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General during the Senate investigations. Newspapers called her "Daugherty 's giggling nemesis" (TIME, March...
...Herbert S. Dickey of the Royal Geographic Society and his bride turned up last fortnight at Para, Brazil, after a busy honeymoon spent in crossing the Andes from Guayaquil, Ecuador; making cinema records of the art of curing human skulls among the savage, head-hunting Teveros...