Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georges Mandel spoke to France again, as rasping and unafraid as ever. On his bullet-ridden corpse had been found a packet of penciled paper scraps and a tiny notebook. Overlooked by the assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...
Emil Ludwig, German-born biographer (Napoleon, Bismarck, Roosevelt) now living in Los Angeles, prophesied the postwar German attitude: "Germans again will try to avoid responsibility like a rich man's mistress when he has lost all his money. They will cry, pointing at Hitler: 'He seduced...
...running from her high-perched house to the street. Other characters include Vaughan's dull wife Emmy, who prided herself on being a daughter of one of "the Mercer girls" imported from New England by one Asa Mercer to mate with the lonely pioneers, and Vaughan's mistress Pansy Deleath, a pleasant, casual woman whom he met while she was singing in the Gold Strike Saloon in Alaska...
Playwright Rattigan (French without Tears, While the Sun Shines) has spun out a commonplace, lifeless comedy about a poor but charming widow who becomes the mistress of a Cabinet minister. Life is gay and she is happy until her priggish Left-Wing young son returns from Canada and is outraged to find his mother living in luxurious sin. He forces her back into virtuous drabness-but not for too long...
Mike Jones was the child of divorced parents. He lived in almost puritanic simplicity with his mother, enjoyed the fleshpots of Brazil and Europe with his father. As a young man he slashed his wrists, ineffectually, over a faithless mistress. At 27 he was married and a father. He drank too much, spent too much, quarreled almost continually with his wife. Life seemed intolerable, and in the summer of 1940-helped by a fall on his head-Mike escaped into unreality...