Madame de Maintenon (1635–1719); second wife of Louis XIV of France. She is often depicted as ambitious, greedy, evil, and narrow-minded.
medium a person through whom communications are thought to be sent to the living from spirits of the dead.
meretricious alluring by false, showy charms; attractive in a flashy way; tawdry.
Midas and Morgan and Maecenas Midas, in Greek Myth, the king of Phrygia granted the power of turning everything that he touches into gold; J.P. Morgan (1837–1913), U.S. financier; Gaius Clinius Maecenas (70–8 BC), Roman statesman and patron of Horace and Virgil.
New Haven City in southern Connecticut; home to Yale University.
1919 World Series notorious championship baseball series plagued by scandal for being fixed.
omnibus a bus; having a variety of purposes or uses.
