Word: mistressful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
...play revolves about the point of whether or not the father shall do this. If he does shall the mother stay with him too? Hardly, thinks the present provider of his bliss. The son, who until this time has led a cloistered existence is attracted by the mistress of his father, and there...
...Lady Lies. To make a play exciting, there is the principle of the tug-of-war. Author John Meehan presents a hero who is a prosperous lawyer. The lawyer is a widower; he has a mistress, three children and the intention of marrying a young lady from the Social Register...
...fiancee amounts to nothing. The children and the mistress fight with each other for the lawyer. Why the children are not spanked by their father and told to stay at home is not explained. Instead they invade the mistress' apartment or ask her in ill-bred fashion to visit theirs. Somehow, Author Meehan makes their bad behavior seem excusable so that the audience hopes that both mistress and children will get the lawyer. Owing to the skilled advices of a friend of the mistress, both do. William Boyd, once Quirt in What Price Glory, is the bone of contention...
...these same leisure hours that Grant took to "solitary drinking" because (his present biographer is a disciple of passe Freud) he had no Mexican mistress, shrank from raucous army companions, refused to attend a second bullfight. Considerable drunkenness was overlooked in those days, but Grant's must have been more than considerable, for he drank himself out of the army, thereby blundering upon the road to fame. If he had stayed in the army, which he detested and disapproved but hadn't the initiative to quit, he would have had a conventional small command in the Civil...