Word: mistressful
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...going on behind the six-and-a-half-foot fence. A number of students testified that they had been given 20 to 30 stripes at a time. But the stories from the woodshed were quickly forgotten after Mrs. Eaton revealed the doings in the kitchen. With tearful remorse, the Mistress pleaded ignorance of "their mackeral, brought to them with their guts in them, and goat's dung in their hasty pudding. It's utterly unknown to me," she protested, adding, "but I am ashamed it should be in the family, and not prevented by myself or servants, and I humbly...
...rumored not to be the son of the first Lord Melbourne-a dull fellow-but of his mother's favorite lover, Lord Egremont. The dashing Egremont, the story went, had had to pay ?13,000 when he "bought" her from another lover, Lord Coleraine (lover and mistress, it was said, shared the proceeds...
...passionate superficiality rarely attempted since the courtly novel died with the French court. Madame De, already known to some U.S. moviegoers in an excellent screen version (TIME, July 26), is a high-society triangle in which a pair of diamond earrings wanders from husband to wife to jeweler to mistress to lover to wife and back to husband, evoking tinkles of high comedy and muted tragedy on the way. The story is a tiny wonder, perfect and trivial as a Japanese miniature tree...
...reader may catch some glimpse of a real life beneath the litter of facts. Reunion concerns the get-together, eight years after, of eight survivors of a battle-scarred company. In the cast: the rising young lawyer with a beautiful wife and a not-so-beautiful Greenwich Village mistress, the ex-sergeant who plays the horses and the fillies, the gentleman farmer whose wife is unfaithful (he encourages it), the smalltown publisher whose wife is also unfaithful (he would deplore it), and Homer Aswell, who believes he is dead. Miller relentlessly records everything-the brand of cigarettes they smoke...
...killing her lover's other mistress in cold blood, Mary Hilton was going to take "the 9 o'clock walk," that morning stroll in which England's condemned cover their last mile. Yield to the Night is the story of Mary Hilton's last three weeks on earth and the price she pays for murder. It is a high price in accumulated terror. The emotions that British Novelist Joan Henry uncovers in her artful portrait of an ignorant but intelligent homicidal type are not profound, but intense...