Word: adultress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother, Clytemnestra. Simultaneously, hard by Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress and her paramour were on trial for their lives for having prosecuted a design very similar to Clytemnestra's by methods scarely more gruesome than those set forth in the play. The U. S. man and woman, were sent to the electric chair, objects of public horror. But from...
...Long Island City, N. Y., across the square from a courthouse where an adultress and a corset salesman were on trial for murder, a small man appeared at dawn trundling a wheelbarrow full of lumber. He selected a site, began sawing, hammering, whistling...
Newspaper readers rejoiced that the excuse had been found for reviewing so luscious an episode?relished again the choice memory of Countess Vera Cathcart, self-advertising adultress, who had been Carroll's chief guest; the presence of other fascinating people, such as dissolute Harry K. Thaw and Editor Philip A. Payne of the Daily Mirror (Hearst gum-sheet); the transcript of Carroll's earlier testimony, including...