Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...November 1957 Joanovici got police permission to pay a visit to his mistress in Paris. He was not seen again; but the Minister of the Interior received a letter in which Joanovici "regretfully announced" that "I am not able to earn enough money to reimburse the state . . . therefore I am compelled to leave France." Days after his departure, the police unearthed a vast financial scandal: groups of businessmen had looted a billion francs from the treasury by obtaining tax rebates on nonexistent metals and other goods. Said the chief accused, one Pierre Bercque: "I was just...
...MISTRESS TO AN AGE, by J. Christopher Herold. Germaine de Staël back again in a first-rate biography of the woman who rode the French Revolution like a balky horse, managed, without beauty or other feminine graces, to capture as lovers many of the foremost men of her day. Napoleon said no, and that may have been his major mistake...
Stashing away one racket for another, rangy Negro Tennistar Althea Gibson began work on her first Hollywood role: a slave who ladles Southern comfort to her mistress when the boys ride off in old pro Director John Ford's Civil Warmup, The Horse Soldiers...
Patty (removing dress, exposing slip and such-like): "Why can't we just be grown-up about the whole thing. Really, the way you men seductively mention virginity to a girl not your mistress, and then wink about what happened when Cynthia slept here last night is silly. We should all be frank about...
Infidelity is a tiresome and out-of-joint job about some kind of moral dilemma, involving the death of a bicycle rider. The hero and heroine, obviously big stars in their country from the footage wasted on their faces, are man and mistress. There's a lot of claptrap about living in an age with too many symbols, returning to the old integrity of student days, etc. Of course at the end there comes the uncomfortably awaited Spanish Irony--the heroine is run off the road by the eternal bicycle rider. If you want to go to the seven thirty...