Word: honeymooning
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...Patagonia is a forbidding land of glacial mountains, dense forests and windswept plain, where women are scarce and the men are hard cases. Not because they wanted to avoid trippers but because the idea ex- cited them, Herbert Childs and his newly-married wife went to Patagonia on their honeymoon. She had been there before, had heard tales of an English settler far in the interior who might be good copy for a book. Getting to Patagonia was exciting in itself. They were the only passengers on the freighter that took them from Los Angeles down around South America...
...warned Washington, when it elected Marion Anthony Zioncheck, 35, to Congress, that it would have a Representative likely to claim the spotlight. Instead he worked hard, won considerable esteem in Washington as a promising youngster. Last December he began to get into scrapes. When he got started on his honeymoon four weeks ago, Seattle knew its Congressman was on a rare bender (TIME, May 11). But not until last week, when he returned to Washington, did Seattle begin to suspect that its man was turning from a besotted funster into a raving dipsomaniac. Events of 96 lunatic hours which culminated...
...Honeymoon is concerned with the love of a U. S. Senator for a bubble dancer. Sole innovation afforded by this antique farce is the realistic offstage flush of a toilet, which reveals to the amorous statesman that his sweetheart is entertaining another gentleman in her boudoir...
...vigorous indignation with which Manhattan's critics attacked the latest Nichols production indicated that their powers of vituperation had not abated in 14 "jerky," years. They "dated," called "uninspired," "labored," Pre-Honeymoon "dull," "artificially pumped-up entertainment," "a whisky and pyjama brawl." With a great show of mock anxiety, how ever, most of them echoed the conclusion of the Times's Brooks Atkinson : "If it were not for the painful instance of Abie's Irish Rose, a critic might feel safe in dismissing Pre-Honeymoon...
...Miss Nichols' record suggests that Pre-Honeymoon cannot be as bad as it seems...