Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nagel Nahan Ruppenthal, wife of Philip Ruppenthal '45 IL, will play Lady Percy, and HDC veteran Helen McCloskey will portray Mistress Quickly...
...Devil's Envoys (Paulvé; Superfilm), which is based on the medieval romance Les Visiteurs du Soir, is a French film about a minstrel (Alain Cuny) and his mistress (Arletty) who travels disguised as his brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...
Moscow, they said, east & west in China, in France and in Nebraska; they said it in devotion, fear and anger. Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, like the pealing of the city's thousand bells-Moscow, the shrine of the great new materialist faith, aspiring to be the new mistress of the world, was the most talked of city of the 20th Century...
...family is the most pervasive institution in Brazilian life. Yet many a husband is accustomed to seek sexual and social relations outside the home-the poor and middle-class at the clublike bordellos, the rich man with his mistress. Divorce is not recognized...
...daring attempts to escape, the Turkish commander remarked: "So long as I have the maimed Spaniard secure, my slaves and my ships, nay the whole city will be safe." But when Cervantes finally got back to Spain, he found nothing but poverty and idleness. He had a wife, a mistress, and an illegitimate child to support. Says Biographer Bell: "We may suspect that his life at Madrid at this time was not unlike that of the soldier described in El Suez de los Di-vorcios [The Judge of the Divorce Court, a tale by Cervantes]. According to his satirical wife...