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  • n  a restless seeker after amusement or social companionship

  • The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three weeks' bachelor vacation, leaving her at The Hague, told friends last week: "Benno and I will .
  • Lady Edward Montagu, fortyish; from the Duke of Manchester's second son, gadabout Lord Edward Eugene Fernando Montagu, 41, who at one time or another has been deckhand, hobo, cab .
  • Through a prominent New York City attorney, Thomas Bolan, Frankel met with Father Peter Jacobs, a gadabout clergyman who has ties to New York luminaries, including Walter Cronkite.
News & Articles

  • Friday To-Do: The Foul Play Cabaret, The Frontier Circus
    FOUL PLAY CABARET, THE FRONTIER CIRCUS 9 p.m. Maxine's. $10 adv., $12 day of. Could there be a more appealing combination of entertainers for the discerning gadabout than country musicians and burlesque performers? I think not. The burlesque troupe in this case would be the lovely, the beautiful and talented, the coolly unflappable ladies of the Foul Play Cabaret , est. 2011, Hot Springs, Ark ...
    Aug. 16, 2013 - Arkansas Times
Quotes

  • Hans Reiser in NBC 11.com
    OAKLAND -- The lawyer for computer engineer Hans Reiser said Wednesday that his estranged wife Nina "wasn't a perfect mother" and instead was "a gadabout, to put it mildly."
  • Greg Shipperd in The Age
    He's a student of the game, he's desperate to do as best he can. He's a very talented player. He's very popular within his own team as well as the general cricketing community,Shipperd said. "He's still a single gadabout, he has his...

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