Word: mistressing
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...witnesses are all mirror images of his decay, shadowy chroniclers of loss, rejection, betrayal and defeat. His upbraided, long-suffering clerks are walking legal briefs drawn up against Maitland's corrosive contempt for his work. His wife is Maitland's petition in domestic bankruptcy. His mistress and his casual office couchmates do not attest Maitland's sexual prowess but his inability to love. His daughter, listening to him with unresponding indifference, is an exact replica of his icy self-concern. The clients with interchangeable faces that blur before his desk are a dossier of sins...
...Coleman, 40, a tavernkeeper's son who bought and sold a succession of sickly companies and gained control of Chicago's Seeburg Corp. (jukeboxes and vending machines). Says Coleman, whose 14-year marriage cracked up recently: "Our worlds just grew apart. Work is a jealous mistress...
Wrong Defeat. There is, of course, a great deal more. Lockwood banishes his son for the unforgivable fault of getting kicked out of Princeton, his daughter gets entangled in an intricate sexual morass in London, he himself acquires one mistress too many (O'Hara tycoons always have several mistresses). His brother kills himself-and the mis tress. In the end there is no one left of the Lockwood concern but the principal person of this private religion. But the chief trouble with the Lockwood concern is that it has also be come the O'Hara obsession. And that...
...what usually happens to a man who sits around and waits for things to happen: the wrong thing. One day Carlos sees a woman on the street, and is instantly smitten with the sort of grand passion that is possible only to the passive. He makes her his mistress, and is about to make her his wife when he discovers that the lady is his long-lost sister. Here at last is the romantic disaster for which Carlos has been secretly hoping, the excuse that will justify his failure to stand up and fight like a man for the ideals...
...Marseille, Conrad met and fell madly in love with the Pretender's beautiful young mistress, a luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near...