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Both girls were thinly dressed, showing that they were foreigners. One was Glenna Collett, the other Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume who won the tournament last year. They were the two most interesting personalities in the tournament and the people of England wanted to see them play. What was a little rain? It would be good for the greens, the cheery faces of the Britishers seemed to say. Mlle. Thion de la Chaume shivered, hooked her drives into the long tough grass, Miss Collett shivered, took a nine in one hole, but tied the match at the ninth...
With him traveled his more-than-pretty daughter, Mlle. Marie Antoinette Claudel,* blonde, blue-eyed, ready to pass from jeune fille to grande dame. Doubtless she would find New Orleans, where gallantry is understood, more enchanting than Washington, where flattery keeps its net mended to capture the mayflies of gossip so important to political life. She would share with him the warm friendliness of a sort of homecoming, but in not quite the same blissful passivity as he, Paul Claudel, poet...
Clad in an aviation suit and helmet, which looked as if it were made of silver-colored silk, one Mlle. Suzanne Biget, French aviatrix, allowed herself to be doused and soused with alcohol last week at Vincennes...
Stepped forward a friend, a swanky artillery officer, who struck and applied a sulphur match. As Mlle. Biget became enveloped in a towering blue-hot flame, interested spectators watched to see whether the fireproof aviation suit which she was testing would prove practicable...
Mile. Biget screamed. "Blankets! blankets!" cried the spectators. In an instant, friends who stood ready with blankets had smothered the flames. Emerging, Mlle. Biget seemed more nervous than singed. "I got so hot," she said, "that I thought I'd better scream...