Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most First Ladies, thrust into power by their husbands' skill in electioneering, were either unfitted, disinclined or too poor for the expensive game. Young, dark-eyed Mrs. Grover Cleveland was the last White House mistress to exert social dominance (she frowned on the bustle and the bustle disappeared). The White House experienced a brief, last burst of gaiety when "Princess Alice" Roosevelt (now the widow of Speaker Nicholas Longworth) made her debut there and was serenaded wherever she went with Alice Blue Gown...
...envious cave dwellers. One refers to her as "Mrs. Thing," claims she has "a hide like an elephant." Another summed up: "She's amiable, of course, but she's commonplace, that's the word-so full of deportment." Adds Virginia-born Lady Astor, a past mistress of the catty crack: "She gives enormous parties that nobody who's anybody really ought...
Look for Big Lawns. After that he headed for New York. He settled down in suburban Rye with his mistress, a Canadian girl named Eleanor Harris, and their daughter Wendy. He bought a shiny Buick, drove it past big Westchester County estates and noted houses which had big lawns and Cadillacs parked in the driveways...
...simple: personal and dynastic power, personal gratification and money. Life would have been simpler if people had given him what he wanted in the first place. Had Katherine of Aragon given him a son & heir, he might never have married Anne Boleyn since he might have had her as mistress; had Pope Clement VII consented to annul the marriage with Katherine, Henry might never have insisted that he, not the Pope, was head of the Church in England; had the royal treasury been full, he might never have confiscated the Church lands...
Freedom from Jokes. His father was a Roman Catholic who struggled to remain respectable in the midst of deepening poverty-but the Dreisers once had to thank the benevolent mistress of an Evansville sporting house for furnishing them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...