Word: mistressing
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...mistress of Louis XV of France for nearly 20 enduring years, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson d'Etioles, Marquise de Pompadour, boasted no Mercedes-Benz or chinchilla coats, but managed to spend before her death at 42 an estimated 36 million francs on gowns, jewels, furniture, art work and seven estates, including the Palais de 1'Elysee in Paris, today the home of the Presidents of France...
Moving In. By that time Comrade Leonilde Jotti, graduate of a Roman Catholic university in Milan, onetime language teacher, wartime partisan and postwar Red Deputy, had become Togliatti's mistress, though 27 years his junior. So completely did the buxom, black-haired girl from Reggio Emilia capture the affections and feed the ego of the brilliant, moody Togliatti that he got a legal separation from his wife, Rita Mon-tagnana, a white-haired intellectual, and went off to live with Nilde Jotti in a high-walled villa on Rome's Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain...
...Ernest Dichter, high priest of the motivational researchers, argues that convertibles are bought, not because buyers like fresh air and sunshine, but because somehow they regard the convertible as the mistress they dare not have. With equal solemnity, Sociologist David Riesman (in an article co-authored by Auto Expert Eric Larabee) proclaims that "many can safely sample the jet-age aura by having a design 'based' on the Sabre jet-as the 1956 Plymouth. So, too, can the consumer be in tune with the future through his dashboard, which looks like an intergalactic control panel...
...Pigsty. The quality of the peasants' mercy is severely war-strained. When the slatternly mistress of the first refuge proposes to barter away Rosetta's virginity with the local Fascist bullyboys in exchange for her deserter sons' safety, Cesira and daughter take to the mountain roads in a predawn escape. Their next haven is a dirt-floored hut. This time they fall in with a family of peasants who wash their feet in a common basin, slurp up their daily bread-and-bean mush from a common bowl, and sleep on wooden planks padded with corn shucks...
...liberty-loving Mme. de Staël had been one of the first to suspect his despotic ambitions. As France's First Consul, Napoleon had guessed, quite rightly, that Mme. de Staël "wanted to put him on guard against himself" and to play the part of mistress-adviser to him. But the Consul already had his eye on sylphish Juliette Récamier, wife of a Paris banker, had sent Minister Joseph Fouché to whisper in her ear: "The First Consul finds you charming." When, after Napoleon had become Emperor, Mme. Récamier still shied...