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Word: adultress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Twenty-four hours a day sounds about right," says Crosby, who made a dozen or so films before her marriage in 1957. This week she sets out on a nationwide, 65-city roadshow tour of the two-character Broadway hit Same Time, Next Year. Her role: Doris, a faithful adultress who for more than two decades has an annual meeting with the same lover. "If Betsy Palmer gets tired of playing Doris on Broadway, I'm available at the end of April," Crosby quips. If not, she hopes to get another role in London's West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 16, 1978 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

TRAPPED IN A hellish marriage with a philandering Captain, Helene Alving abandons marital duty and seeks love and refuge in the arms of old family friend Pastor Manders. But those arms are too busy embracing the constraints of nineteenth century society to make room for a tearful would-be adultress, so Manders sends Helene right back to the Captain with a firm reproach and charter membership in the Cult of True Womanhood...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: An Affable 'Ghosts' | 3/4/1976 | See Source »

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