Word: adventuresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
While this play offers nothing unusual or starting, yet is it dished up in a manner novel enough to make it attractive to the casual playgoer. In the familiar situation of a family with a tradition whose son falls for the peroxide rinse adventuress, we have a large assortment of old comic standbys, prominent among whom is the crusader for unrepressed sex, the avid reader of Havelock Ellis...
...schooner, the Black Hawk, to sail around the world. But two months later the Black Hawk fetched up on a sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said she: "Hell, yes, we're going on-rHit on around Cape Horn...
...wife's tactful authority, begins a quavering descent into senile decay. The first sign comes when Nicholas goes to bring old William Colombe to the death bed. The old man snores loudly, pretends to be asleep. After his wife's funeral, he persuades an aging adventuress to remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry her. The children get rid of Ninette but it does them little good. Their father takes up with a succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat...