Word: mistressful
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...adulterated news" about her death. To the millions gobbling up each day's revelations of debauchery in high places, the fate of Wilma and Muto seemed of secondary importance compared to the speculations swirling about the "Marchese" Ugo Montagna, stage-struck Socialite Anna Maria Caglio, his onetime mistress, and Piero Piccioni, son of Italy's Foreign Minister...
...Rome when she was 20, hoping to break into the theater or the movies. She had little success, but she became a part of the highest-living, fastest-traveling Roman set. The most dashing of them all was the Marchese Ugo Montagna. Soon Anna Maria was his acknowledged mistress, accepting an $800-a-month allowance and living with him openly. But last summer Ugo threw her over. La Caglio began to go to church, then retired to a Florence convent. Later, urged by her conscience and her confessor, she decided to tell...
Into a setting of grimly pursued gaiety--a country houseparty given by a charmingly useless marquis and attended by his wife, mistress and assorted dignitaries--comes an earnest young hero. Infatuated with the wife, he believes that she returns his love, but her advances (or halting retreats) are little more than flirtation permits with all her male friends. He just doesn't know the rules...
...wealthy, white-haired Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, as the leader of an international dope-smuggling ring who lured young girls to opium-drenched downfalls. When reporters reached the Milanese attorney's daughter, she calmly admitted that she had indeed once been the marchese's mistress...
...Joyce, while in search for a title for his first book of poems, stumbled on a salesman's suitcase containing one gross of "ladies' undies." Fortified with "a few pints," Joyce took the underwear to the red-light district and hurled it into the bed of "the mistress of Sweeney the greengrocer . . . As he did so, his toe struck the night jar or 'chamber' and it rang musically." Gogarty and Joyce woke next morning lying side by side in a potato field, and the poet's first words, says Gogarty, were: "I have the title...