A beauty queen, once the mistress of a top general, was identified as an agent for drugs barons but now ready to name names.
There is a character who suggests the critic Clement Greenberg, another whose history resembles Peggy Guggenheim's and, unsurprisingly, the once-attractive mistress who has lost her looks but still clings to the secret of what happened on the night of the fatal auto accident.
William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies, his mistress, once took them to lunch at the Brown Derby.
As for the talk of Joe Snr's bootlegging, and claims that JFK once shared a mistress with a Mafia don, perish the thought.
Marie, who'd once been the mistress of a wealthy man, had finally come to Paris, a broken old woman, 2 yrs.
"The irony was clear: here I was, cheating on a novel that had once been my mistress!": Jeffrey Eugenides describes his act of literary adultery.
The Mistress — once the part of Monica Mason, now head of the company — was danced surely if a little stiffly by Sarah Lamb.
The sea hath fish for every man, And what would you have more?" Thus did my mistress once Amaze my mind with doubt; And popped a question for the nonce To beat my brains about.
Other choice guests joined the captain's table, and once a female, Mistress Posey Brandon, a lady of considerable stature, quite overtopping the gentlemen at the table, but sitting silent for the most part unless pressed to speak.
In "Lola Montes" (1955), the once proud Lola, mistress of Franz Liszt and of the King of Bavaria, is a caged beast, enacting the story of her rise and fall in an American circus under the control of a sadistic ringmaster (Peter Ustinov).
