Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark lady was a married woman who broke her bed vow (Sormet 152), but Mary Fitton was single when she was William Herbert's [later the Earl of Pembroke-1580-1630] mistress ... He refused to wed her . . . After bearing three illegitimate children to three different men, she married rich and died respectable. But-alas for the supporters of the Fitton-Herbert theory-Mary inconveniently turns out, from the evidence of her portraits, to have been not dark but fair, with light brown hair and gray eyes. For hair, Shakespeare's dark lady had "black wires"; for eyes, "pitch...
...cracked bed of the Rio Grande River filled with a boiling torrent, and in the flat lands of the lower valley, 4,000 people were driven from their homes by the rising waters. Three cities and towns were flooded; the brown tide covered 50,000 acres. Most of the onion crop in the lower Rio Grande valley, a quarter of the tomato crop and 10% of the cantaloupes were ruined. Health officers labored day and night against the threat of typhoid, by week's end had inoculated 60,000 people...
Making plans to hang out his lawyer's shingle in Chicago this fall, Adlai Stevenson was troubled again by his old kidney ailment, canceled several speeches, eased himself into a Chicago hospital bed, early this week had a successful operation...
Little Louis Dieudonne de Bourbon, at the age of six, was taught an amusing game. Every morning, on awakening, he was to tell himself he was about to act God: every night, on going to bed, he was to ask himself how close he had come to the Original. Little Louis liked the game so much that as King Louis XIV of France (which he became at the age of four), he played it for keeps. He had been named Dieudonne-God-given-and believed it. In The Splendid Century, British Author W. H. Lewis shows that despite the King...
...ladies in waiting, waylaid him as he was coming from his bath, and seduced him. After that, Louis was insatiable. According to his sister-in-law, "all women, peasants, chambermaids, servants' daughters, women of quality" had only to pretend they loved him to be received in the royal bed. His Queen. Marie Therese, had to compete with a succession of mistresses and hordes of passing amourettes until she died. Six months later. Louis' mistress, Madame de Maintenon. became his wife and, at 46. the King suddenly closed the door on his boudoir career...