Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wolfe collection came to Harvard largely by chance. Shortly before World War II, Aline Bernstein, Wolfe's onetime mistress, the Mrs. Jack of the later novels, sold the manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel at a public auction, to raise funds for the relief of Jewish refugees (a bit of irony for Wolfe had an avowed tendency toward anti-Semitism.) The book was sold under the stipulation that it was to go to a university, and the buyer gave it to Houghton...
...Nancy Mannigoe, lifting her eyes serenely above the Mississippi bar of justice at which she stands condemned for throttling a six-month-old infant to death in its crib. Nancy is a Negro ex-prostitute, but her crime is a mere postscript to the horror-gorged life of her mistress, the dead child's mother, who is enslaved to the devil in the flesh. Mrs. Gowan Stevens was formerly Temple Drake, society-girl heroine of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, to which Requiem for a Nun is a sequel. While the law has dealt with Nancy...
...Mistress (Daiei; Edward Harrison), one of the finest films the Japanese have made, is a poignant restatement of the timeless truth that in the last analysis a social problem is a moral problem, and a moral problem can only have a religious solution...
...flat. He soon puts his strange talent to use in bank vaults and jewelry shops, signs himself "The Werewolf." When the Werewolf is captured by the police, he simply evaporates through the thick prison walls. But Dutilleul's powers desert him one night in mid-wall at his mistress' home, and passing Parisians take his walled-up cries for the whining of the wind...
...matter what their age, or refuse a husband of their parents' choosing. They had to live with their in-laws, endure without protest their husbands' infidelities, could be turned out on the flimsiest charge of "disobedience" or reduced to the status of a servant to a new mistress in the house. But three years ago, when South Viet Nam became independent, the women found a champion. As sister-in-law and official hostess of Bachelor President Ngo Dinh Diem, dainty Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, 30, a Christian, is not only the first lady of a Buddhist land...