Word: adulteress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General's Lady, a sort of colonial version of the Judd Gray-Ruth Snyder case, tells the story of a beautiful, vainglorious Tory adulteress, Morganna Bale, wife of a middleaged, good-natured Continental general. In the last year of the Revolution, when the story begins, Morganna acquires two worshipful protégés, a pretty farm girl and a handsome British deserter. When she falls in love with the deserter, he takes fright at her reckless passion, tries to escape. Promptly retrieved, he resists no further. Two months later, the war ended, he is so hypnotized that...
...Beware," cried His Lordship, "that you do not convict her of this crime [murder] because she is an adulteress-an adulteress of, you may think, the most unpleasant type...
...jury, after 53 minutes, dutifully found Adulteress Rattenbury innocent and Dupe Stoner guilty last week of the murder of "Rats," she being promptly set free and he sentenced to hang. "I am glad she has been spared!" cried Murderer Stoner...
...greatest personal triumph was his successful campaign against Britain, when his bookish tactics went like clockwork. In all his tribulations his adored young wife Messalina was his greatest comfort. Claudius was the last person in Rome to find out the truth about her: that she was a nymphomaniacal adulteress, a treacherous schemer, a cold-blooded poisoner. This discovery made Claudius nearly willing...
Annie, the adulteress, is an Irish-Catholic girl. She came to the U. S. with a young girl friend when she was 14. When she was 19 she married a kindly Protestant who was 25 years her senior. His great fault was a disposition to quarrel about religion, especially after their daughter was born. He permitted his wife to leave him for a younger Protestant with whom she fell in love. Busybodies had her arrested for adultery. After her reformatory term she went back to her lover, became a Protestant, has grown stout and religious...