Word: faithlessly
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...change is divided into three episodes, each with a new background, a new partner. The first episode has for its background a smart summer town in Maine and for Claire's partner a youth whose adolescent romanticism is as vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...
...LETTER?Katharine Cornell empties a pistol into a faithless lover and a breaking heart into an evening that tells...
...acting of the star, the evening would have been unimpressive. Miss Cornell again plays the part of an untraditional heroine; a faithless woman; harder, colder this time than her Iris March of The Green Hat. She is one of the few great players in the land who will risk what is known as the sympathy of the spectators by playing women they wouldn't want around the house. Again she shows her genius in a character they dislike, yet makes them like...
...several thousand of Chang's hosts as well as the latter's "friendship." But last week Chang saw that the Cantonese were pressing hard upon Sun. The time was opportune to forget the $2,000,000 payment that had passed between them. Chang, ever faithless, forgot it easily; last week, ordered his troops with Sun to betray the latter, and marched upon Shanghai himself with an army said to number...
...oldtime, blundering, self-crucifying British individualism; for an egotism whose one sinew is self-respect, that Author Ford's central figure stands. When the War came, Christopher Tietjens of Groby, ponderous, gentle, clumsy, omniscient, was already under the triply complicated strain of an abnormally faithless wife, financial difficulties and his love for Valentine Wannop, a young person of much head and spirit. In Some Do Not (1924) he resisted his need for Valentine as his mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that...