Word: mistressful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Snow White, they ply him with mystic mumbo jumbo and a brand of higher Dianetics called "time alive." by which Ravenstreet can relive key events in his past with the added wisdom of hindsight. Under the influence of time alive, Ravenstreet realizes that he should have married an adoring mistress rather than the boss's daughter, and that Mervil and associates are evil men. anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear here for a spell). Outfitted with a new set of values, Ravenstreet breaks with Lord Mervil...
...threesome by adopting a baby. It is not easy. Augie quickly learns that to meet an adoption agency's qualifications, he needs several virtues he does not possess. But what he finds so hard to adopt he finds deceptively easy to create-with a major assist from his mistress. The result is that Augie becomes a source of supply to the agency that has rejected him as a customer...
...reactions to the president's death. The Playboy Financier (Louis Calhern) dabbles in bonds and women from the Stork Club, the Trusted Vice-President (Walter Pigeon) looks faithful, the Hearty Sales Manager (Paul Douglas) learns of the death in his secretary's apartment, and the Dead Man's former Mistress (Barbara Stanwyck) tears her hair. Only Frederick March, as the scheming comptroller who wants the presidency, has the time and the talent to develop his role...
King Charles II believed in God, but pictured him as an easygoing fellow who would not "make a man miserable . . . for taking a little pleasure out of the way." This belief enabled Charles to 1) get a great deal of pleasure out of a multitude of mistresses, 2) swell the British peerage with royal by-blows. 3) set an example that his courtiers were happy to follow. Like crumbs from the royal table, his discarded ladies were snapped up first by noble favorites, often later by mere baronets, knights, popular actors and even acrobats. The most resourceful mistress of them...
...ladies swooned when he strode into their presence. Along with his fellow rakes, Buckingham was in and out of the royal favor like a gaudy shuttle -though Charles was too indulgent to fuss when Buckingham ran his sword through the Earl of Shrewsbury, husband of Buckingham's mistress. "I am sorry to find that cuckolds in France grow so troublesome," Charles wrote to his sister, the Duchess of Orleans, shortly after. "They have been inconvenient in all countries this last year...