Word: mistressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France was an old man remembering a mistress with whom he had been unwise but gay as spring-France and Democracy. Ah, the whole world had envied them. How pleasant had been their dream of Liberte, egalite, fraternite. And how agreeable to lie late abed in the mornings...
Last week Wolvey conducted herself with as much grace and poise as her charming mistress. After a dramatic half hour she convinced the gallery as well as Judge Herman Mellenthin that she deserved the show-dog championship...
Last week the London Daily Mirror said that Corinne had been the mistress of Otto Abetz, the Nazi boss of Paris, for three years. She is currently the first lady of Paris, said the Mirror, and her salon is a meeting place for high-ranking Nazis and highly placed French collaborationists. Corinne came by her preference for Germans honestly. Her father, Jean Luchaire, is a leader of the pro-Nazi National People's Party, editor of the Nazi-controlled Le Matin and Les Nouveaux Temps...
...months fat-cheeked Carol of Rumania has found Mexico City's suburb Coyoacan an agreeable place for his exile, complete with his red-haired mistress Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, a luxurious eight-room maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico...
...Otto H. Kahn winged for home from Cairo after two and a half years abroad. The onetime mistress of two fabulous mansions planned to settle in a Manhattan apartment...