gadabout

• “gadabout," as they say, and spent a great part of her time amongst the kept women of the neighborhood, whose acquaintance she had made.”

  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter

• “This woman will likely end up with a free McMansion with 15 bedrooms and two full-time maids, 7 nannies, a nice new short-bus and gadabout, free diapers, baby food, formula and paid college tuition for all the kids.”

  Baby Boom

• “First there was Wolverine: Prodigal Son, the Marvel/Del Rey book which attempted to "mangify" the character by turning him into a generic angsty shonen hero -- thereby robbing everything that made him interesting to begin with -- and now there's Iron Man: Armored Adventurers, which imagines Tony Stark not as gadabout playboy but nerdy youth.”

  Teenage armor: A review of the new Iron Man cartoon | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

• “It happened that the surgeon of McQuestion, who was something of a gadabout, was up on a gossip, and between them they proceeded to repair Leclère.”

  BÂTARD

• “Elisabeth borrowed the “Debray” monicker from her ex-husband, the famed international gadabout and Che Guevara pal Régis Debray, the Bill Ayers of France.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deconstructing Obama

• “No longer Richmond Taylor, wealthy financier and gadabout, he now stood tall as that dark mystery of the night, that scourge of terror and nemesis to all evildoers: The Black Hand!”

  Free Excerpt 4/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson

• “Isabella Blow (1958-2007) certainly risks becoming a fashion footnote, remembered as a social gadabout (she once said that she needed publicity "like Jane Eyre needed Mrs. Rochester") and as the magazine editor who discovered the designer Alexander McQueen and the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Photo-Op: The Hat Madder

• “Only not exactly gallivant, more like gadabout, playing an international game of tag with an imaginary, relentless and inexhaustible "it.”

  The Huffington Post: Omer Rosen: From Point A To Point A By Way Of Point A

• “His own father, blithe gadabout Edward VII 1901-1910 was solely a horse racing buff who was oblivious to his subjects becoming, in his lifetime, suddenly and overwhelmingly enamoured with ball games.”

  The Guardian: Royalty has finally become wedded to the national sporting obsession | Frank Keating

• “Stevens is not a Washington gadabout, but he is an astute political observer dating back to his days as a spectator of Chicago politics.”

  The Washington Post: How to choose a Supreme Court justice

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