Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, brilliant, rich and potent Chinaman Sze received a cablegram at Washington where he has been Chinese Minister for eight years. At once socially popular Mme. Sze told her servants to pack?everything! Priceless bronzes, her own superb gowns, the first and second best Ming vases, and Dr. Sze's well-worn poker chips?everything...
...deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial entente, and was denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued for a defeatist peace with Germany; and finally Four, when as Finance Minister, after an astounding comeback from prison to Power, he dismally failed to negotiate a satisfactory Franco-U. S. debt...
...have sold my automobile," he admitted not long ago. "Also I avoid many invitations. Mme. Poincaré and myself can no longer entertain, in return, on the scale expected of my office...
...Mme. Dupuy, nee Helen Browne of New York, took over management of her husband's papers on his sudden death a year ago. 'Besides the Petit Parisien these include the Dimanche Illustre (the "Sunday Illustrated"), La Science et la Vie, a monthly magazine of popularized science, Omnia, a magazine for automobilists. The Sunday paper is edited after the fashion of the familiar U. S. Sunday sheet, including comic strips, many of which Mme. Dupuy imports from the U. S. Even strips involving baseball are used; and if Paris does not understand the game, well, so much the worse...
Intending her two sons for journalistic careers, Mme. Dupuy declared she would send them to the U. S. to get their first newspaper training...