Word: mlle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Maxim's was back in business. Mahogany, glass and brass glistened as of old. Albert was on hand to welcome the bejeweled and tail-coated guests: Princess Faiza of Egypt, Couturier Jacques Fath, Cartoonist Roger Wild, Mlle. Constantinesco, Fred McEvoy, Mme. Audemars and a safari of minor movie officials, businessmen and actresses. Gallantly, the sprinkle of oldtimers and pleasure's eager neophytes strove to revive the tradition of flaunting frivolity. But something more was missing than Gérard, who had retired to a sumptuous château near Biarritz which he had bought with tips...
...French political marriages were breaking up. At the town hall of Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...
Paris' fall fashion shows opened, and Schiaparelli's outstanding contribution proved to be a bustle-a bustle on almost everything. Molyneux's favorite colors sounded like sublimations: butter yellow, burnt orange, light mustard. Favorite couturière of the boulevardiers was doubtless Mlle. Alixt: she had daytime dresses with necklines clear to the waistline...
...Mlle Curie keeps her account absorbing for nearly 500 pages. Her quick, supple mind makes her a detailed, sensitive, unassuming and impressive reporter on persons and places both big and small...
Barrett spent most of his time squiring Mile. Riabouchinska, while R. Bowden Broadwater '42, Pegasus, resplendent in the latest thing in tweeds--a semi-knee length imported effect with turned-back cuffs (yes, actually, my dear!)--greeted all the guests. The seductive Mlle. Baronova devoted most of her attention to an editor of the CRIMSON...