Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides Mrs. Attlee, the Institute's opening ceremonies included a speech by one Mrs. W. Wakefield, billed as "a mistress who has never had any servant troubles." Mrs. Wakefield divulged part of the secret of her success: "I have always encouraged my girls to bring their boy friends home. I like them to do their courting under my roof...
...What's the price on these two dresses?" Vaughn asked mistress of ceremonies Helen Damon afterwards. "I really don't know," was the cool reply...
...usual, readers must grant Author White (The Sword in the Stone, Mistress Mas ham's Repose) a basic, whimsical conceit. This time the Archangel Michael slithers down the chimney of an Irish farm where Mr. White is boarding, warns of an imminent flood and appoints the author as a latter-day Noah. The idea is pretty thin to start with, and it is not even corn-fed from there on. The building of the Ark, for instance, is a nail-by-nail account that only a carpenter might care to follow. Author White, who wrote the book in County...
Most Faithful Friend. In Baltimore, the National Safety Council reported, a dog belonging to Ruth Patterson spied a pistol on a washstand, put his paw on it, shot his mistress in the hand as she relaxed in the bathtub...
...Romantic General Georges Ernest Jean Marie Boulanger was the dominating figure in French politics in 1888-89. He fled before the Government could arrest him for a plotted royalist coup d'état. In 1891 he committed suicide on his mistress' tomb in Brussels...