Word: adventuresses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, air-touring Publisher Van Lear Black of Baltimore chartered a huge Imperial Airways plane as his "flying grandstand." Winner of the race was R. L. Atcherley, flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, with a Gloster-Grebe military fighter. A competitor was Lady Mary Bailey, trans-African adventuress (TIME, March 26, 1928, April...
...will entertain persons who look to the Crime Club for cerebral diversion. All the action takes place aboard a dirigible, now in a com panionway, now in the observation gondola. There is a professor, a formula for synthetic leprosy, a threat against all nations, an international spy, an adventuress, a leper, etc. etc. The wreck is ably done...
Slain. Elizabeth, Countess Fischler von Treuberg, 58, famed European adventuress; by Edgar Beese, German flier, who committed suicide at the same time; in Berlin. Born in 1870, a tailor's daughter, Elizabeth Uhl became a wealthy, fashionable courtesan, celebrated in Continental capitals and on the Riviera. In 1911 she won long-sought social standing by her marriage to Count von Treuberg, a bankrupt naval officer. She had arranged to pay him 25,000 marks, but never did so and the marriage was later annulled. Aviator Beese's father, mother and sister all were suicides before...
This time, Miss Avery forgot about being a waitress. Her story was published in the N. Y. Evening Porno-Graphic. She was an adventuress, she said, and had without any persuasion from seamen clambered on the Sands from the port of New Orleans, because she was "crazy for adventure." She was in New York to testify to the innocence of the Sands' crew; she said the other four girl stowaways who were found on navy vessels had probably, like herself, been led only by their own inclination to such extravagant behavior...
Editors were in a quandary because, startling though it was, every page of The President's Daughter seemed to ring true. Nan Britton did not sound like an adventuress but like a smalltown girl who felt she had experienced one of the worlds great loves. Moreover, names and places, letters, photographs and episodes were in great and confident profusion through the book. The bravest, most brazen charlatan would never have dared so much...