Word: irma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was once a sweetly pensive French popsy named Irma-la-Douce, who plied her trade on the streets of Montmartre but reserved her true love for a handsome young pimp named Nestor-le-Fripé. Because he returned her love, Nestor put on a false beard and booked Irma by the week. After an interlude on Devil's Island, Nestor returned to "Coulaincourt, where stroll the filles d'amour," to settle down in unmarried bliss with his Irma. This curdled romantic idyl furnishes the plot for Irma-la-Douce, Paris' most popular long-run musical...
...jacket and wide sombrero, he drew mobs wherever he went in Latin America -and most of the crowd was female, proudly claimed 14 children, legitimate and illegitimate. His wife Maria Luisa put up with his escapades for 18 years but he divorced her five years ago and married Actress Irma Dorantes. Just two weeks ago the Supreme Court nullified the divorce, invalidating marriage...
...center of the crush, police clubbed back the mob to keep Infante's relatives from being pushed into the grave. In all, 114 were arrested and more than 100 injured. Widow Irma wept at the graveside, while Widow Maria Luisa mourned in a limousine near by. Still to be decided...
...funniest part of the present "foreign intrigue issue" is an ad on page nineteen--"Subscribe now to the Harvard Lampoon ... a magazine of humorous significance." Running a close second is an ad for the Casino Theatre on the opposite page which proclaims with two pictures "The return of happiness...IRMA THE BODY." Irma may be fairly repulsive, but she is pretty funny...
...remain from both Kirkland and Winthrop House, but all Eliot and Dunster residents will shift into their Houses next year. Some of the Dunster men, however, had to be convinced by House officials before they would consent to move. "We fee the location is inconvenient for our men," Mrs. Irma E. Hutchison, House Secretary, explained...