Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barry, by Stanley Loomis. A biography of the girl who learned the social and sinful graces in the Paris underworld, became the last mistress of Louis...
...look back at her own willowy and willful stage. Should she have deserted her husband to run off with worthless Gerald? Should she have abandoned her illegitimate daughter to be brought up by a Belgian family? No, evidently, to the second question; the girl grew up to become the mistress of two German officers, and the women of the Resistance shaved off her hair. But a fierce, unfazed yes to the first; although life is unpleasant, it must be met squarely. At novel's end, the willowy girl courageously casts aside thoughts of her anguished lover and suicidal husband...
...myself, I am a sailboat; I have the right of way. Then I get the hell out of there." Investment Banker Julian K. Roosevelt (of the Oyster Bay Roosevelts) recalls the day on Long Island Sound when a power boat pulled alongside his father's 60-ft. schooner Mistress. The intruder bellowed: "Hey, Mac! Which way to port Jefferson?" Says Roosevelt with deep satisfaction: "I answered him in his own way and said, 'First turn to your right, Mac!'" Harrumphs a fellow New York Yacht Club member: "I should have told the fellow to go straight down...
...Mistress (Japanese). A simple and moving restatement of a timeless truth: that even for a "fallen woman," the soul is free...
...Mistress (Japanese). A simple and moving restatement of a timeless truth: that even for a "fallen woman," the soul is free...