Word: madame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...declares, first assigned in October 1921. to do private investigation for Mrs. Harding, then involved with a fortune-teller called Madam X who had told the President's wife that she was "a child of destiny." On her order, he sneaked into a married woman's apartment to recover communications between Madam X and Mrs. Harding and accidentally found letters from Dr. Charles E. Sawyer,? Harding's physician, to the married woman. These he turned over to Mrs. Harding, who, he says, was scandalized at having the White House desecrated...
...Zimbalist, like other astute artists, sometimes alters his fee to fit the occasion. Recently, a Manhattan dowager telephoned him, bidding him play at one of her musicales. "And what, Mr. Zimbalist, will be your fee?' "Five thousand dollars, Madam." The dowager did not flinch. "And you under stand, Mr. Zimbalist, that you will not be expected to mix with the guests." "Ah, Madam, in that case it is only one thousand...
University -- "Madam X" and "Speedway...
...Freshman problems. What would be eliminated however would be President Lowell's annual visitation to the Parent's league of Boston, to ask them not to invite Freshmen to Debutante Balls, and to answer the usual question about locking the gates of the Freshman Halls at midnight by saying "Madam, would you have me lock them...
Other features of the program will include Harvard songs by the Harvard quartette, assisted by Madam Louise Homer, soloist, and personal messages from University officials...