Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vision of the Australia he intends to see emerge from war into the new Pacific world: industrialized, socialized, galvanized into growth to at least twice its present population. He wants to see a grown-up daughter country, bound to the mother Empire in innumerable ways, but undisputed mistress of her own abode, and free to choose her friends as she thinks best. A continuing council of Pacific nations means more to Curtin than a resurrection of the Singapore naval base...
...Munich pact. It shows the young diplomat Alex Hazen (Dennis King) marrying not the serious-minded girl he loves (Barbara O'Neil) but her more conventional best friend (Cornelia Otis Skinner). The women become estranged; later the other woman becomes Alex's mistress. But not till the reunion in Washington is the true nature of their roles brought to light: it was less their feeling for Alex that actuated the women than their desire to hurt each other...
Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, red-haired mistress to Carol of Rumania, had her face lifted in Mexico by a Manhattan plastic surgeon-said to be lifter by previous royal appointment to Rumania's Queen Marie and the Duchess of Windsor. His 13 stitches were removed after eleven days, were reported to have restored the old Lupescutaneous charm...
...pursuit of a theatrical career, became a Chaplin protegee in the summer of 1941. She fitted into a familiar pattern. Chaplin signed her to a $75-a-week contract, began training her for a part in a projected picture. Two weeks after the contract was signed she became his mistress. Throughout the summer and autumn, Miss Berry testified last week, she visited the ardent actor five or six times a week. By midwinter her visits were down to "maybe three times a week." By late summer of 1942 Chaplin had decided that she was unsuited for his movie. Her contract...
...dashed into the Ukrainian village, three of them at once raped Malasha, the "leading collective worker" and wife of a Red Army soldier. The Nazi captain, Kurt Werner, made a quisling out of an embittered kulak (prosperous peasant) whose property had been turned into a collective farm. As his mistress, Captain Werner took another quisling, a pretty little brunette named Pussy, the wife of a Russian soldier. Then he set about trying to worm out the village's secrets-the whereabouts of the local guerrillas and hidden stores of grain, ham and honey...