Word: floreana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature writer could have bettered. A free-love back-to-nature colony on the little island of Flo-reana, peeped at and reported from time to time by curious yacht-trippers, had come to a boil, exploded. Two corpses had been found on a neighboring island. "The Empress of Floreana" and her No. 1 lover had disappeared (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Of the couple who had been the original settlers the man had mysteriously died. Last week U. S. readers could peruse the tale (ghosted) of the woman survivor whose narrative did not pretend to tell the whole truth...
...doctor, also married, also unconventional. Dr. Ritter's dream was to get away from it all, live a Rousseauistic life on an uninhabited island. They broke the news to their respective mates (whom they unsuccessfully tried to bring together, in compensation), collected their gear and set off for Floreana. According to Dore Strauch. it is not true that they had all their teeth pulled before they left.* Dr. Ritter had had his out some time before, and for a different reason: she foolishly left hers in. later had to have them pulled by the doctor with crude instruments, without...
...their hideout; next came copycatting settlers; then the journalists. One family came with an expectant mother, because they knew Dr. Ritter would be able to help her confinement. Most of the "settlers" were only visitors, but one fine day, when Dore and Dr. Ritter had been three years on Floreana. Satan herself arrived in their homespun Eden. She came in the guise of a German baroness of dubious antecedents, uncertain age and still more ambiguous behavior. With her she brought several devoted men-followers. The Baroness soon had them all by the ears. She and Dore hated each other...