Word: mistresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same year Freud published The Case of Dora, the partial analysis of a girl of 18. She had the misfortune to be in love with both her father and his mistress-according to Freud-although conventional psychiatrists of the day would have dismissed her troubles simply as the result of "depression...
Around Tweed in Tammany Hall revolved the infamous Tweed Ring. Among the other ringleaders: City Chamberlain Peter ("Brains") Sweeny, whose mistress was a masseuse in a Turkish bath; City Comptroller Richard ("Slippery Dick") Connolly, and Mayor Abraham Oakey ("Elegant Oakey") Hall, who wrote a play called Let Me Kiss Him For His Mother, and who, while District Attorney, gave a dramatic reading titled Dido versus Aeneas, an ancient breach of promise trial...
...Evidence that 1) Yale was sacked as governor because he used his position for excessive private profit, and 2) after he had seen his wife off alone for England, he lived in the same house with Mrs. Nicks and a Portuguese mistress, Hieronima de Paivia, who bore...
...year is 1931. Actress Harris, as Sally, is a café singer of doubtful merit but nothing else about her merits any doubt. She is an amoral Junior Mistress with green fingernail polish, a nymph in sheet's clothing. She drinks Prairie Oysters (one raw egg, one dash Worcestershire sauce) for breakfast, stirs her gin with vast quantities of sentimentality. Down and out, Sally meets young Christopher Isherwood, a struggling author. He offers to share his apartment with her. In gratitude, she asks: "Shall we have a drink first, or shall we go right to bed?" But Isherwood...
...more easily beguile our European allies into believing Soviet Russia is more sinned against than sinning. She thus can elbow the United States out of the Eastern Hemisphere, dismember NATO, neutralize Western Europe, and put across her fake peace-and-disarmament plan which, once completed, would leave her mistress of the world.. Such is the peril. Fortunately, President Eisenhower sees it quite clearly...