Word: hobnobs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elliott is uneasy in her installment-plan nest in Rockport, N. J., and that her husband shows no inclination to listen to her pleas for a more stimulating, if less propertied, life. A job of arson helps the Elliotts. Burned out, they take a studio apartment in the city, hobnob with the bare and bibulous, plan to spend their insurance money on a trip to Europe where Mrs. Elliott will absorb culture and scenery and Mr. Elliott promote a mysterious business scheme. But a pair of jealous wives back in New Jersey contrive to make it appear that Mrs. Elliott...