Word: faithlessness
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Encrusted with ice, the Lampoon's Ibis dropped into the office last night with the news that the boys at the Bow Street aviary had renounced their schoolboy pranks and were embarking into the complex scientific world of public opinion research. To prove his point, the faithless Ibis took some proof-sheets from under a wing and read excerpts...
Mike Jones was the child of divorced parents. He lived in almost puritanic simplicity with his mother, enjoyed the fleshpots of Brazil and Europe with his father. As a young man he slashed his wrists, ineffectually, over a faithless mistress. At 27 he was married and a father. He drank too much, spent too much, quarreled almost continually with his wife. Life seemed intolerable, and in the summer of 1940-helped by a fall on his head-Mike escaped into unreality...
...week's end, fair-minded Censor Byron Price seconded Clyde Reed. Said he: "It is more important to me than to any Senate committee to find out who was faithless enough to violate these confidences...
...Dood It (M.G.M.) To spite a faithless fiancé, a dancing actress (Eleanor Powell) marries a man (Red Skelton) who, she believes, owns a gold mine. She kicks him out when she learns that he is really a pants-presser, grabs him back when he foils a saboteur's attempt to blow up a munitions warehouse...
...Bill Hutcheson, head of the Carpenters' Union, who once called Lewis a big bastard and was forthwith knocked flat. And the announcement came, fittingly enough, from the lips of pious-faced Bill Green, whom Lewis originally made president of A.F. of L., and later denounced as a "faithless ingrate" (and many other things). Summoning reporters to his office, Bill Green took quiet revenge, smugly smiled a "cat-ate-the-canary" smile, stated that his executive committee was sympathetically considering the application...