Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college students. (Wellesley girls were told at the campus bookshop that they could not buy a copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them to all the women he knew...
...shall go on dragging my son along without knowing what river to throw him into." Mirabeau almost died of smallpox at three, was disfigured by it. All the children (his parents had eleven) were caught in the cross fire of their family quarrels. His father brought his mistress into their home. His mother gave "her lover, an officer, a certificate of her full satisfaction"-a document which fell into her husband's hands. He wanted to commit her to an insane asylum, finally succeeded in imprisoning her in a convent. And so on and so on, through libelous pamphlets...
...last fall ex-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold posed a problem to Helen Rogers Reid, mistress of the New York Herald Tribune. Arnold was representing a group of State Department employees who had been fired-on unspecified charges-in the Government's loyalty investigation. Arnold thought that an important question of civil rights was at stake. Said Mrs. Reid: "Why not get in touch with Bert Andrews...
Died. Caroline Lacroix, Baroness de Vaughan, seventyish, second wife (morganatic) and widow of Belgium's King Leopold II; in Cambo-les-Bains, France. Young daughter of a Parisian concierge, she became the mistress of 65-year-old Leopold, bore him two sons in nine years, wed him in 1909, four days before his death...
...dead man's toes, begin trying to save their respective skins from the singeing at Sing Sing." "Show us how you struck," the prosecutor orders Judd Gray, and up stands the little salesman, removes his spectacles, and "cocks" the very sash weight with which he bludgeoned his mistress' sleeping husband. "[He] has," notes Runyon, "a sash-weight stance much like the batting form of Waner, of the Pittsburgh Pirates. . . . He is a right-hand hitter." And for the thousands of women whose interest in the Pirates is small, Runyon has other generous helpings to spoon out. "Mrs. Snyder...