Word: faithlessness
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...Mills murder trial in Somerville, N. J., a syndicate press service last week introduced a reportorial method more intrusive than ever. It employed Fannie Hurst, smart Semite novelist of the "gusher" type with a working knowledge of popular psychoanalysis, to observe Mrs. Hall, widow and alleged destroyer of a faithless clergyman, a stolid-seeming woman whose expressionless demeanor upon the witness stand was baffling the sharpest gimlets in the press gallery...
Friends. Some admired, some loved Keats; all were, at the last, either stupid or faithless. Miss Lowell, turn- ing them over with her spade, knows them better than he ever...
...Never has history shown a mon arch more deceitful and less powerful than the cruel and faithless puppet of the Spanish throne. Men are judged by their company. Alfonso's greatest friend is the only man who surpasses him in ignominy, if not in stupidity - Primo Rivera. He is a companion in the King's debauch and has dirtied the uniform in every kind of adventure and every haunt of vice...
...become as his ironic nickname-the Lambkin. The reader's only regret is at his final end-an end due only to the blindness of his love, which leads him to kill his best friend and finally to deliver himself to his enemies in order to show the faithless Spaniard that he is no coward. And as he mounts his gibbet comes the word from her that what befalls him is nothing to her, and that their child is none...
...roots of plot. It teeters badly and threatens to collapse at the first breath of a yawn. When the heroine is growing up as a tomboy in the country there is entertainment. When she moves up to London a great calm suddenly comes up. She murders her early, faithless lover to stimulate the ending and marries Milton Sills. "She" is Virginia Valli and an exceptionally soothing performance-optically if not technically-she gives...