Word: adventuress
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...pardoned. She had never seen him, but his sentence impressed her as unjust. She proved that as a young sublieutenant he had sold French military secrets of no great importance, not because he was a black-hearted traitor to his country but because he had been seduced by an adventuress, La Belle Lison. After Nurse Poirier had obtained Lifer Ullmo's pardon all France expected them to fall in love...
Biography of a Bachelor Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Ann Harding does not suffer in this one. Instead, still copiously exuding sweetness, she is cast as an adventuress so notorious that reporters storm her cabin when she returns to the U. S., so impoverished that bailiffs immediately thereafter denude her studio of furniture, so dashing that Robert Montgomery, editor of a magazine called Every Week, is ready to pay $20,000 for her biography. Ghostwriting her memoirs, he endangers the career of Edward Everett Horton, candidate for the Senate. Horton will lose the election if Every Week reveals the part...
...naturally considers Eadie a guttersnipe adventuress. Young T. R. decides to marry her. Paige senior arranges a scene in which Eadie, back in Manhattan, is publicly photographed in negligee in the embrace of a grinning stranger. Eadie retaliates in kind when old T. R. is about to sail on the Aquitania for an international gathering. In a split second she appears in his cabin in her underclothes, gives him a mighty hug while press photographers do the rest. All this feverish by-play ends in a curious reconciliation scene. Eadie gets drunk. To sober her up, young T. R. Paige...
Adventure came to him in the person of Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow woman. A court decision described what followed: "Barnett was kidnapped by an adventuress." All through one night they rode in a taxi to Coffeyville, Kans. where they were married. Then they crossed the State line to Missouri and were married again...
...come to London after the War to seek her fortune, at the price of leaving her adored infant son at home, her weak husband to his own devices. Painfully she holds down a job in an advertising agency, lives scrimpingly in lodgings where her only friend is a blowsy adventuress. When her two pre-War pals are demobilized one of them plans to start an honest weekly; he dies of cancer before he can make a beginning. The other retires into scientific research. Hervey leaves her job, helps found the hopeless paper and serves it faithfully until it founders...