Word: mistressful
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...Harding is the best of the second-raters." Disillusioned by the war and weary of Woodrow Wilson's high-road crusading, the voters overwhelmingly elected Harding. In the White House, he inaugurated twice-weekly poker games in the library and found a secluded closet for trysts with his mistress...
...bragging toper Pistol, whose tavern cronies Bardolph and Nym are sharply limned by Raymond Skipp and Norman Allen. (These two double as the soldiers who converse with the disguised king in a night scene far too brightly lit by Marc B. Weiss.) Aideen O'Kelly is a passable Mistress Quickly and a better Queen of France...
Ottone, a Roman nobleman, came home one night to discover his mistress, Poppea, in the arms of the notorious Emperor Nero. The Emperor finds time to dally with his male friend Lucano when Poppea or his Empress Ottavia is not around. Seneca, Nero's wise old mentor, advises him against marriage to Poppea and, for his counsel, is forced to commit suicide. Ottavia, whose crime is wanting to keep her husband and her throne, is exiled-set adrift alone at sea. Meanwhile, Ottone, who has tried to murder Poppea in her sleep, is banished. When Poppea finally marries Nero...
...must have selected a likeness to amuse a friend or cloud the public image. William Faulkner, who liked to characterize himself as a back-country farmer, chose a gelatinous, Hollywood-issue publicity shot, with only his pipe in sharp focus, to give to the woman who would become his mistress. The message Faulkner intended to convey with the photo-apparently taken during one of his scriptwriting stints-is as blurred as his visage...
Fortunately, most people-at least in this list-have had more pleasure from sex. H.G. Wells could scarcely resist any woman, and at one time induced his second wife to nurse his ailing first wife while he was seeing his mistress, Author Rebecca West. Wells was not exactly a Godfearing man, and in a letter to West he explained why: "God has no thighs and no life. When one calls to him in the silence of the night he doesn't turn over and say, 'What is the trouble, dear...