Word: bigamists
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...Bigamist, No Ketch...
...show gains little by it. The efforts to make him appear mad are scarcely more subtle than the preliminary stealing of his pants. One comes dangerously close to boredom while waiting for the first curtain. The second act looks up considerably, however, and the wiles of the bared bigamist in dodging the gendarmes and the bobbies are cleverly contrived. The hero is able to evade the law, but unable to escape from the dilemma of having two lovely wives. Mr. Dietz finally works out an answer to his knotty problem, but modestly discards it, and puts the question...
...last trial of a peer by the House of Lords was 34 years ago, when Lord Russell was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to three months in jail, the usual sentence for a bigamist in England being two years. After serving ten days, Lord Russell was pardoned by King Edward...
...play concerns the trials and tribunations of de Porceaugnsc who wants to marry a girl named Julie. When a rival frames de Pourceauguac as a bigamist, the lovers are only reunited after a flight from Paris...
...Thackeray-"with his warped, middle-class outlook, poor, frightened little mid-nineteenth-century Thackeray"-who gave George IV and his Brighton days their bad reputation in Victorian England. To that novelist George was everything that an English monarch should not be: a bigamist, a liar and a lecher who played practical jokes, gambled, drank heavily, and, as Prince of Wales, with an income of ?70,000, managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories...