Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voodoo dances. He would have had to look far for a better baritone than the Met's burly Robert Weede to sing the lead role of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian slave who made himself (in 1804) an emperor, then a tyrant, only to be duped by his mistress and shot in the back. With Marie (The Medium) Powers as the rejected wife who came back faithfully to bury her husband, and George Balanchine to tune up a satirical little minuet, Troubled Island should have had no trouble...
...Nelson's fortitude and judgment, Admiral James sadly admits, fade from sight during the interludes on the Continent with his mistress, Emma Hamilton. "Antony and Moll Cleopatra" (as they were named by one onlooker) turned the courts of Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Naples (where husband Sir William Hamilton was ambassador) into uproar. Emma guzzled champagne and gambled with Nelson's money. Nelson, down by the stern in an alcoholic sea, roared demands for songs in his own praise, and aged, cuckolded Hamilton, merry as a grig, "performed feats of activity, hopping around the room on his backbone...
...Trustees, in protest to Mr. Pilkey's attempts to "pack" the Board with Alumni. "No sir," says the Judge, "I shall simply watch you and your school with the amused detachment of one who is in the know, with the Olympian shrug of a former lover watching his ex-mistress go to seed...
...unloose their tongues. Fingal and Pelancey are soon suspected by several people: Pelancey's clerk who overhears their quarrel; his devout cleaning girl, who drags the truth out of him and urges him to confess; Barty's shrewd old mother; and the dead man's former mistress...
Albert I. Borowitz '51 plays the warrior who boasts of his feats, but is really only a recruiting officer, while Brooks Emmons, Radcliffe '50, is his mistress, and David L. Smith '51 is her rightful lover...