Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mores. She signs a paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress of a particularly bigoted big shot...
...moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting for audiences...
Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...
...Easter Rabbit," by Robert K. Bingham, is the most finished and interesting piece of fiction in the magazine. An introspective young man buys a live rabbit and gives it to his mistress, but the forgets that she has a large dog in the house. The relationship of the two animals symbolizes the doubt and fear in the man's mind, and the story becomes at times terrifying by placing brutality in the limited world of the animals...
Imprisoned again with 30 others in the Chateau d'lf, he seduced the canteen attendant, was moved to another prison, finally fled over the frontier (leaving still another mistress behind him). His sister and her lover, accompanied by a girl engaged to be married, joined him in Switzerland. Mirabeau seduced the other girl. A queer conflict developed with his sister -he wrote to his mistress of her in detail that admitted of incestuous relations; the letter fell into the hands of her father; she became the most rabid of all the enemies who pursued...