Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Timidly but often he has essayed the subject to his superior, Minister of Justice Louis Barthou. But year followed year and M. de Paris was never raised. Recently Mme. de Paris, desperate and confident in the potency of a woman's nagging, approached the Minister of Justice, spoke volubly anent the high cost of Life, the low wage of Death. Last week, her confidence was vindicated. Her husband's salary was raised to a still paltry...
...Died. Mme. Jacquet, 88, sister of Georges Clémenceau; in Paris...
...prize for literature went to Norwegian Novelist Mme. Sigrid Undset. Achievements: early, realistic novels about erotic shopgirls; and, later, masterpieces of medieval grandeur...
...With my friend Mme. Kittle, I sat on a couch in the wings. Mme. Olszewska saw us?. She sang, right with the music. 'What are you doing there, you dirty dogs?' I never heard a taxicab driver use such language. Then she came closer and spat. It [the spittle] struck Mme. Kittle on the cheek. I fainted and they carried me to my dressing-room...
...Mme. Olszewska will give concerts in Cincinnati, Kansas City, Lincoln, St. Paul, Chicago, Manhattan, Washington and Pittsburgh...