Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about to enter the London-Melbourne race as the only U.S. woman flyer (she only made Bucharest). Today she is not quite 34, and the acknowledged No. 1 feminine flyer of the U.S., the successful manager of a cosmetic business and a model orphanage, the mistress of four country and city homes, the wife of Big Businessman Floyd Odium...
Then Ben took over. He bought the police and the D.A., "cleaned up" the gambling joints to make the voters happy, then put them into operation again on a "legal" basis. The girl he had tipped off became his mistress; he gave her the job of seducing the mayor into line...
...seventh tree was for George Heisler. Hiding in a swamp, Heisler planned his moves with the shrewdness of an experienced political prisoner. Soon he would have to get out of the bog and seek help from man. To whom should he go-to his estranged wife, to his former mistress, to his best friend of pre-prison days, to his former political friends...
...buoyant or spontaneous enough; all its breeze seems to come from an electric fan. It has that terrible noisiness which is the bane of too-innocent merriment. Refreshing is the still, small voice of Janie's baby sister Elsbeth (Clare Foley), who at seven is a past mistress of espionage and blackmail. Elsbeth is funny. The rest is formula...
...head." In Haiti he meets the elderly lady tourist ("white hair, white shoes, white shawl . . . like . . . the whitewashed front of the hotel") and her ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous for his studies of nude ladies on bearskin rugs...