Word: mistressful
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...maybe have-a liaison with Victor Mature, the well-known resistance leader. Somebody's resistance is low, it would seem, for when Gable pops in one day, Lana is snoozing comfily in Victor's bed. "Of course," Clark huffs, "outside working hours you're your own mistress." But shortly thereafter Clark becomes convinced that Lana is betraying Victor's intimate secrets to the Germans, and orders her arrest. It takes him an awful long time to discover his mistake...
...adultery with an Austrian prince, Jane moved to Paris, bore her princely lover two children, took up briefly with Novelist Balzac ("I have since noted," said he dryly, "that most women who sit a horse well are lacking in tenderness"). From Paris, Jane rode on to Bavaria, became the mistress of King Ludwig I, married a Bavarian baron and bore two more children. Swept off her feet by a Greek count, Jane was baptized into the Orthodox faith, married again, arrived in Athens where she had another baby, broke with her husband and became the mistress of Greece...
Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford. A life of Louis XV's mistress, done in literary brocades (TIME, June...
...apartments a few steps away from his office, where she would "lie for hours on end, waiting for a visit from her master, reading and daydreaming." From childhood on (she was 29 years his junior), Claretta had slept with Mussolini's photograph under her pillow; to be his mistress had been her sole ambition; he was "her first and only real love...
Madame de Pompadour, by Nancy Mitford. A life of Louis XV's dazzling mistress, done up in rich literary brocades by a fine British writer (TIME, June...