Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farrand Taplin, President E. J. Kulas of Otis Steel Co., K. L. Grennan of cake and cooky fame, Robert Calfee of the Peerless Motor Car Co. and A. C. Ernst of Ernst and Ernst. Head riding master is Joe Glenday, Scotch as the heather, small of stature, lover of horses. New-Aintree also has a junior polo team, winner of local tilts...
Between these two cases, as in a twilight zone, lies the treacherous field of common-law marriage. Only the hairline of intent divides such a legal union from the lover-mistress relationship...
...intent and darkened by deliberate secrecy. Courts generally hold that the good faith of one party sustains such a union, regardless of the mental reservations of the other. Promiscuity, neglect, cruelty, etc., open the door to legal separation as in any statutory marriage. The secrecy usual in a lover-mistress relationship prevents its becoming a common-law marriage unless time dispels the cloak and establishes public and personal acceptance of the union...
...Curtis case the New York court said: "The character of their association was indicated by the fact that he visited her not in the way that would characterize their relations as those of man and wife but rather in the way that a lover visits his mistress. . . . That they were known in Freeport as Mr. and Mrs. Brown simply indicates a convenient cloak for illicit relations...
They rounded up at Berlin where Fran collected another lover, and this one she proposed to marry. Sam, bewildered, obligingly "deserted" to Paris where he found an honest harlot; to Italy where he found the improbable Edith. Edith thought she could be happy with him in Zenith, though "America terrifies me. I feel insecure there. I feel everybody watching me, and criticizing me unless I'm buzzing about Doing Something Important. And there's no privacy...