Word: messalina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Planned Parenthood. Catherine's self-portrait is in demure contrast to the pic ture drawn by historians, who characterize her as a Messalina. with a reputed score of 55 lovers. She was the first to concede her womanly charms, admitted - in a passage expurgated from the 1907 Russian edition - that these were "the halfway house to temptation." But she intimates strongly that Peter never consummated their marriage, and that her first affairs during the years of waiting were instigated, apparently by the Empress, to perpetuate the dynasty...
When Demetrius refuses to kill his opponent, the Emperor substitutes three tigers. But Demetrius tarzans the beasts (obviously tame as tabbies), and a Roman noblewoman named Messalina (Susan Hay ward) decides she would like to do a little wrestling with him herself. In due time Demetrius is thrown, and lands for a brief period in the lady...