Word: mistressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recorded that in later days Charles II supped there with his mistress, Nell Gwyrme, on a mutton chop...
...what you wanted: what you were asking for. . . . I'm sorry, I apologize. I . . . ." She said good-by to Roddy and let Martin think she would marry him. Then she broke her engagement and went to France, whither Julian followed her to ask her to be his mistress. This, too, was a dusty answer to what she desired. In England she went to meet Jennifer again, but Jennifer, always an unsure idol, failed the meeting. Then Judith was rid at last of the weakness, the futile obsession of dependence upon other people. She had nobody now except herself...
...Scipione Borghesi is both Royal and Papal. There are, in fact, dozens, scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night club, should have announced her marriage to Count Pepito di Albertini of Rome. Few of Miss Baker's race would have kept the secret as long as she said she had kept it-20 days-and when the announcement was cabled...
Satire is the aim of the novel, but satire is never quite so sophisticated and lewd as the puerile effusions of the flapperish Cleopatra whose acquaintance we make in perusing the "Diary." She boldly describes her appearance in Rome as the public mistress of Caesar and forthwith begins to criticize Rome, Caesar, and every one else except Antony and a few other of the Roman jeunesse doree whose appetites for wine and illicit love are as strong as hers. Her philosophy is Hedonistic; she proclaims herself a sensualist and not satisfied with the fast pace of the Romans she attempts...
...wished-for conclusion. It was conceived grayly and exploits, not the romance of joy, but of sorrow. Its heroine, Ethleen, oddly named, daughter of a mystically minded mother, herself a roamer of the marshes, outlived her husband and her lover to settle down, at last, in serene resignation as mistress of the old farm. Her character is the one real character in the book and, whether, or not it is a complete character, it is the product or presumed product of enough wayward influences to render it interesting...