Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain's National Physical Laboratory, which, like the Bureau of Standards in the U.S., checks weights and measures, tests and develops materials for industry. N.P.L.'s director-an important post in British science-lives in the palace where William IV lived as a prince with his mistress, as a king with his queen. Three weeks ago Professor William Lawrence Bragg, physicist, distinguished son of a distinguished father, moved out of the palace to become boss of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory (TIME...
...foot ketch Idle Hour had slipped her mooring and was being whipped out into Long Island Sound. Dwight Long did his radio stint, then ventured to the WJZ audience an anxious SOS: ". . . All I own in the world is aboard the Idle Hour. . . ." Next day they found her, mistress of 35,000 miles of angry oceans, a splintery pile on Long Island's rocks...
...said he was asleep when the shooting started-was tried and exonerated by his Russian superiors, much to the dissatisfaction of the commander of the A.E.F. in Siberia, General William Sidney Graves. When the White Russians had to evacuate Siberia later that year, General Bogomoletz, who had acquired as mistress a revolution-widowed girl of 20, Anna Zaporojschuk-escaped from the Bolsheviks to Harbin, Manchuria. Two years later Anna and her protector sailed steerage for Seattle...
...later, now head of the bank, long since dutifully married to a good, dull wife. Determined that his five children shall have the things he missed-a decent allowance and tolerant understanding-he successfully conceals his shock when they get drunk, when his oldest son confesses to having a mistress. With heroic effort he swallows his chagrin when his favorite daughter goes off to Hollywood, returns pregnant but unmarried. But when two of his children confess they are Reds...
...pinscher & Irish setter) bitch belonging to Horticulturist Harvey C. Stiles. About a month ago, Mrs. Stiles held a dollar bill out to Dumpy and said, "Doesn't that smell nice?" Few days later, Dumpy turned up carrying in her mouth a dollar bill, which she pressed on her mistress. Next day she brought home another dollar. Each day for the following fortnight Dumpy brought home a dollar a day, never more, never less. Some of the bills were old-issue, large-sized dollars, most were current certificates. Only clue was that Dumpy's snout was dirty, her paws...