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Word: mistressful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reports from England revealed that attention had been turned to an educational problem as old as Robin Hood-the schooling of England's 100,000 or more gypsy children. The Surrey County Council opened a peripatetic school, with a master and mistress, to teach them, besides the three R's, crafts like basket-weaving, rug-making, woodworking, gardening. The "school house" was pitched in open country near a large gypsy encampment and though attendance was distinctly voluntary, 40 pupils enrolled the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gypsies | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...Minister of War) created a sensation by calmly announcing that he, not M. Malvy, was the lover of Mata Hari. He said: "During many months, she, by all the means of seduction she knew how to employ in incomparable fashion, tried to acquire the right to call herself my mistress. I found her charming, but full of mystery, enticing, disquieting. I had the imprudence not only to tell her that but to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Scandal Obliterated | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...Fitzgerald will go on, writing about people, about whom he knows too much, too much that will sell quickly to the popular magazines, ever to be able to settle down, to take the bumps with the best of them. Fitzgerald is The Rich Boy of literature for whom his mistress Money must die that he may be born again...

Author: By R. K. Lamb ., | Title: The Fitzgerald Manner Growing Up | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

...central figure is an elderly English novelist off for a holiday in Venice. In the surrounding group are his recently acquired mistress; an effusive lady novelist; a direct descendant of Casanova; a lean clergyman and his equally bewildered wife?plus one or two minor folk. These chatter aimlessly about love and its various imitations. The lady novelist falls into the canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 15, 1926 | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...dinners-and wait to be bribed. After midnight they usually demand a sum based on the appearance of those who hail them. A quietly dressed Parisian and his wife may get home for almost the day tariff. A silken-caped, silk-hatted Argentine millionaire with his hatless ermine-caped mistress may be held up until he almost buys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Taxi Rates | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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