Word: cuckold
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...outward appearances, the biggest thing that ever happened in Brunswick, Iowa was the daily arrival of the 6:45, which sometimes came in on time. But plenty of other excitement went on just below the surface. Drury. the town villain, was making a cuckold out of little Bolly Hootman. Slaughter Somerville, No. 1 Citizen, was in love with the deacon's wife. Station Agent Ben doggedly pursued cat-like Lulu, unaware that she was after Slaughter. When the deacon found Slaughter and his pretty wife practicing hymns together in the church and peppered them with birdshot, all these situations...
...everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young assistant; his heredity and the environment of a storm rescue him, ruin her. A red-blooded Britisher, finding himself a cuckold, prepares to do the traditionally manly thing; takes wiser advice in time...
...prelude in which a man (Leslie Adams, the droll cuckold of Goodbye Again) bites a dog, a cataclysm which looses a series of news stories that never, never could have happened. Citizen & Mrs. Hoover leave the White House, but Mrs. Hoover (acidic Helen Broderick) does not depart without telling Dolly Gann what she thinks of her, nor does she forget to strip the place of spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet...
...Mask & the Face (by Luigi Chiarelli; Theatre Guild, producer). Count Paolo Grazia (Stanley Ridges) deeply pitied his cuckold friend Zanotti (Leo G. Carroll). In fact, he was a little disgusted with Zanotti's philosophic complacency in regard to Signora Zanotti's shameless philandering. Zanotti held that a woman, being essentially frivolous, was not to be blamed for her perverse breaches of the moral code. As for the Count, he'd kill his wife (Judith Anderson) if he caught her in another man's arms, that's what he'd do. Just before the close...
...operetta. This one is handsome, melodious, appealing to ear & eye rather than funnybone. It is the sort of play in which, by 11 o'clock, most of the actors are impersonating their grandchildren, for it begins in 1881, ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early in Act I. But Producer White has another expensive baritone, Walter Woolf. ready to step into the breach and lush, blonde Miss Herbert is happily reincarnated, thus holding the stage...