Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept his mistress at city expense while his wife and three children lived on relief elsewhere. Another sharp fellow kept himself jobless, and thus on relief, by a trick of dress-he wore a fez and a flowing robe while looking for work, secure in the knowledge that few employers wanted anyone in Oriental costume...
Playwright Rattigan (French Without Tears, O Mistress Mine) has made an effective stage piece of the story-so long as the story can be enacted on the stage. Pinched for drama toward the end, Rattigan, who has a trained theater eye for everything, including trash, trots out a lot of mildly mushy heroics. Never as serious a play as its theme demands, The Winslow Boy winds up little more than well-acted, generally interesting entertainment...
...book is an improvement on its forerunners: Dreiser is no longer content to draw a caricature with his fist; he attempts to paint a portrait, and regards his villain with some compassion. Cowperwood is loyal to the wife he does not love, and sincerely devoted to his mistress. He never repents his deeds, or sees a need to, but he makes a futile attempt at good works by endowing, in his will, a charity hospital. This escape-hatch from hell is closed, however, when the ill-gained wealth is dissipated by executors, lawyers and heirs...
...plot concerns the romance of an unbelievably wonderful young girl and a man of the type supposedly indigenous to the acting profession, the middle-aged egocentric. Complications are provided by the actor's mistress and his godson a "boy next door" kind of character. Mr. Herbert, who is "no boy next door" himself, gets a good deal of obvious pleasure in awarding the girl to her elder swain...
...menacing meaning of a Communist election victory was pointed out in an editorial in Paris' conservative Figaro: "It should be noted what the consequences of the conquest of power by the Communists in France would be for world strategy. The Soviet Union [would be] mistress of the European continent. . . . The Anglo-American position in Germany . . . would be encircled from the rear; the Mediterranean artery would be cut . . . while Soviet submarine and air bases would be established at Brest and St. Nazaire, at Casablanca and Dakar. . . . Now it is likely that the Soviet Union, ill recovered from the terrible blows...