Word: adulteresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News and Fiction, Homemaking, Style and Beauty-had its own cover, and ads appropriate to it inside. Then he went after the taboos that governed the sweetness & light fiction of women's magazines. He bought a story about adultery (Stone Blunts Scissors, by Sara Yarrow), in which the adulteress got the man. McCall's got 5,000 letters on it, most of them praise...
...When the priest connives with the girl to get her letters to him, Brigitte discovers it and brings a complaint against the priest. Sickened by loneliness and by the discovery that his adored mother is an adulteress (a masterly story in itself), the boy steals money from his tutor and runs away. It looks like a triumph for Brigitte's self-righteousness. But the priest, though apparently defeated, finally wins her half-mad and remorseful soul...
...decides that the Queen is an adulteress, her infant daughter not his. He orders the child to be abandoned and puts Queen Hermione (Jesse Royce Landis) on trial for her life. Then the sudden death of his beloved older child, followed by the apparent death of the accused Queen, combine to open Leontes' eyes to reason, his mind to remorse...
...master picture-forger was one Hans van Meegeren, a little-known Dutch artist. Although he worshiped Adolf Hitler, he felt no compunction about unloading a fake on fellow Nazi Hermann Göring. Göring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...