Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...overcoat on which his mistress expires are introduced as evidence when the artist (John Beal) is tried for her murder. His attorney is the husband of the lady who owns the beret. He has undertaken the case at the request of his wife who has promised to discontinue her affair with the defendant...
...Leandro, Calif., Judson Doke warned a young student to stop his affair with Mrs. Doke, shot him dead when he refused. To the student's funeral Judson Doke sent flowers. "I have nothing against the boy. In many ways he was a nice lad," said Judson Doke...
...fell in love. All went swimmingly until the girl's father decided that Willoughby was no catch, did his level best to break up the affair. Willoughby dissipated his feelings, acquired a heartless mistress, got into debt, lived in squalor. When his true love finally came back to him both had much to forgive. But at last they were married, went to live on the ancestral farm Willoughby had inherited. For a few years they were happy; then Willoughby's blood began to tell. He grew more and more like his old uncle, sank deeper and deeper into...
Marie Manfred, famed pianist and even more famed inamorata, goes to Italy for a holiday, almost immediately becomes involved with pianos and men, both of which she has sworn not to touch for some time. She has a violent affair with a sombrely pompous Fascist, whose physical charm temporarily overcomes her common sense. When he refuses to marry her, on the ground that the scandal of being her husband would make him ridiculous, she finds herself able to laugh as his enemies force him to drink their health in castor oil. Relieved of her hero, she takes on an earlier...
...baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have appeared in the script, all of them conceived and impersonated by Gosden and Correll...