Word: trousseau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marrying kind." Nevertheless, when she wins a horse race for him, he can't resist. In mid-honeymoon in New Orleans, America learns the truth about him: Fant is a gambler and a dastard. For a while she supports him by selling off her trousseau to pleasure women (Fant is fit to die laughing). But Fant kills a fellow gambler, then dives off a sternwheeler. America returns to a Kentucky tobacco farm, gets to work supporting herself, surrounded by some of the richest Scottish, Irish, German and end-man brogues to be found outside vaudeville...
...Bataan, where Annalee mended and patched her sweater-and-slacks trousseau for two months, the Jacobys' foxhole honeymoon did not dampen their spirits. And Jacoby, besides adding to his laurels as a correspondent, took some of the best photographs to come from that front...