Word: mendl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entered from Mexico under German and South African quotas, looked forward to U.S. citizenship. Meantime, in Chattanooga, Tenn., the World's Christian Fundamentals Association plumped for the revocation of the citizenship of Albert Einstein, 62, on the ground that he is an atheist, and in Manhattan, Lady Mendl (Decorator Elsie de Wolfe), 84, awaited Congressional action on a bill that would restore the citizenship she renounced on her marriage to Sir Charles Mendl...
...attaché, Captain Charles Emmanuel Brousse, bomber-squadron commander in World War I, and his longtime friend and assistant military attaché, one-eyed Lieut. Colonel Georges Bertrand-Vigne, another soldier of Verdun and Narvik. In addition he numbers among his good friends the elegant Mrs. Williams, ageless Lady Mendl, Count René de Chambrun (Pierre Laval's son-in-law, who quit the U. S. for France after Laval's fall), Jeweler Pierre Carder (longtime paterfamilias of the French colony in Manhattan), onetime U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt (who helped...
From bomb-blasted London came first pictures of rich, resplendent Sir Ibrahim, 67-year-old, martially habilimented Sultan of Johore, and his new Rumanian wife, red-blonde Marcella Mendl...
...Sultan up to last month, when she was killed by a German bomb while shopping for a fur coat in Canterbury. Said the Sultan of Johore: "I am heartbroken." Exactly six days later his old eyes kindled again as he bought a Red Cross flag from Miss Marcella Mendl, mellow Rumanian blonde who speaks five languages, is distantly related to cafe society's famed Sir Charles Mendl, has lately been driving an A. R. P. ambulance in London...
...fell in love with the Sultan as soon as I saw him," cooed Miss Mendl. The lightning courtship of Miss Mendl lasted just twelve days, during which time the Sultan continued to pay occasional visits to the bereaved parents of Miss Hill in efforts to cheer them up. Then last week he put on his khaki and gold uniform as Colonel Commandant of the Johore Military Forces and marched into Caxton Hall Registry Office to marry Miss Mendl. She turned up in silver fox and orchids, wearing a diamond brooch in which the Crown of Johore was flanked...