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dorothy1901 ([personal profile] dorothy1901) wrote in [personal profile] neotoma 2006-08-25 06:45 pm (UTC)

Adventurer vs. adventuress

A bit of dialogue from The Palm Beach Story (1942, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, dir. Preston Sturges):


Gerry: I may not even get married again. I might become an adventuress.

Tom: I can just see you starting for China on a twenty-six foot sail boat.

Gerry: You're thinking of an adventurer, dear. An adventuress never goes on anything under three hundred feet with a crew of eighty.


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