Word: cuckold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forces gathered in unaccustomed intensity to perform what seems the finest possible act under inexorable circumstances. A house of harlots buries one of its number, masking the dead girl's true profession from her mother; the mother perceives, but plays out her role. An Arkansas stonecutter, cuckold, is reluctantly driven to revenge by public opinion; his joy is great when he finds that the couple he has strangled in the dark are strangers. A Louisiana farmer, despairing of love from his mail-order wife, puts his mouth over the muzzle of his shotgun. A fading saleswoman sees a bearded...
...husband, comes an Englishwoman to find that he no longer cares much for her. Slowly the tentacles of intrigue wind about them and their neighbors. She wins back her husband's love, only to learn that one of her neighbors with a sensual wife has been made a cuckold, and that her husband was the maker. Then follows the neighbor's revenge-and her own grief, wondering whose child she is to bear. It all moves with despatch to a well-planned happy ending-but unmistakably planned...
...getting dressed in the shelter of the door to which the knob was affixed. Could it have been Walter? Kitty did not think so. Her companion, an athletic adulterer of 40, left her. Kitty sat down to wait for Bacteriologist Walter Fane who, at this point, had been a cuckold for about a year...