Word: adventuress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what has since become the Conning Tower's "most requested" poem for reprinting, a rollicking narrative called "Thai's." First stanza: One time, in Alexandria, in wicked Alexandria, Where nights were wild with revelry and life was but a game, There lived, so the report is, an adventuress and courtesan, The pride of Alexandria, and Thais was her name. . . . Some of the best contributions are anonymous, so far as the public is concerned. Last week the Conning Tower's annual prize (a watch) was awarded to one M. F. for some verses entitled "David, Aged Four." Christmas...
...married life Caroline took old Aristocrat Hugo as her fatherly lover. When she accidentally had a baby and Hugo's old wife died he wanted to do the right thing by her. To prevent him she married worthless Jock, gentleman rider and latent cad. He left her for Adventuress Sonia, who got as much money from him as she could, then set her cap at Maggie's husband. Maggie was a fighter and a single-minded woman: when she lost Buck she lost everything. The last time Caroline saw her friend was in Paris, where Maggie came...
Although the spice of the performance, Actress Aubert's part in Princess Charming is somewhat vague, she being an adventuress through whose boudoir a great many comic figures flit back and forth...
...Manhattan apartment, then follows each diner home: Spinster Savina Jerrold to her spinster-shared brownstone house, her spinster memories; Clubman Jim Towner to his night-club mistress; Tycoon Melbourn first to jilt his paramour, Jim Towner's wife, then to propose honorable marriage to cool, semi-adventuress Mrs. Wintringham; young Philip Dantry to his first night of love with his clay-footed actress idol. Other figures, not so outwardly respectable, join the shifting parade: Gunman Sicily Tony, actual husband of Jim Towner's mistress and still a rival for her affections; Pat Healy, doorman of old Hector...
...playing in all the big U. S. and European tournaments. David comes up to expectations, beats the best of them, recaptures the Davis Cup from France almost singlehanded, goes on from glory to glory. Finally, when his sensible little wife has left him, after due warning, when Adventuress Arline Harker almost has the grips on him, when he has become the tennis employee (by inference) of the U. S. L. T. A., David wakes up, tells all concerned he will have nothing more to do with them, leaves professional amateur tennis, returns to honesty and his sensible little wife...