Word: mistressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collection (Baltimore). The chief Metropolitan Rembrandts are the group of 13 bequeathed by Benjamin Altman in 1913, including the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, Pilate Washing His Hands, Toilet of Bathsheba, one of the many self-portraits of the artist, and portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels, Rembrandt's housekeeper, mistress and second wife, and of Titus, his son by his first wife, Saskia van Uylenburg. There are also the Man with a Beard and the Portrait of a Man, of the Marquand collection, the Oriental, given by Mr. Vanderbilt, and two portraits lent by J. P. Morgan. Practically...
James Parker (25), born in Paris of English parents, kept a mistress in luxury and had a good time in Montmartre. Suddenly his employers, the American Express Co., discovered a deficit of 475,000 francs (about $25,000) in his accounts. Parker was arrested...
...woman finds herself in a position to decide the fate of her lost lover's mistress, who has forgotten herself so far as to shoot the lover. Inasmuch as the jurywoman herself has, in the prologue, attempted unsuccessfully to eradicate the identical individual in much the same manner she finds herself, as the saying goes, in a dilemma. Her solution involves the detonation of a vast amount of emotional cordite...
...Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, second wife of Benjamin Harrison, was never mistress of the White House. Her maiden name was Lord and she was a widow at the time of her second marriage. The first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison died during her husband's term of office. The second Mrs. Harrison (Mrs. Dimmick) was a niece of the first Mrs. Harrison, and 35 years the junior of the ex-President. A week before their marriage in 1896, General Harrison (a Presbyterian) was converted to the Episcopal faith. His son and daughter by his first marriage openly disapproved...
Henry Hull and Robert Strange sputter through the action as the losing lovers. They bandy back and forth the old humors of jealousy?fighting beneath the outward mein of repression in the presence of their mistress. They are both insufferable egotists, and the author derives much laughter from their self-approbation...