Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were: Sir John Lavery, who paints interiors, genre and Lady Lavery; Jean Louis Forain, famed French satirist; Bernard Boutet de Monvel, chic portraitist, one-time fashion artist for Publisher Condé Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair). Many of the painters are hitherto unknown to the U. S. One of them-Mme. Tamara de Lempicka -attracted much attention with her monotone grey Portrait of Doctor B(oucard), as meticulously drawn as a machine design. Mme. de Lempicka is a Polish woman who lives in Paris...
...World engineering congress at Tokyo. Oct. 31-Mme. Marie Curie honor guest of American Society for the Control of Cancer, in Manhattan. Medicine...
...ballroom well after midnight. Nearly all the European delegates looked tired as spaniels. Distinguished M. Delacroix affects smartly upturned moustaches. Now they drooped. As he disrobed, the onetime Prime Minister of Belgium and the only original member of the Reparations Commission who remained a member last week sighed to Mme Delacroix, "Hélas, I am not so young...
Anxiously Mme Delacroix listened to her husband's breathing. She remembered that when the Young Plan Committee was sitting in Paris, Britain's great Banker Baron Revelstoke had gone to bed similarly weary and died of heart failure before dawn (TIME, Jan. 14 to June 17). Banker Delacroix's sleep seemed normal, however, and soon his wife was asleep too. About 5 a. m. she felt his hand on her shoulder: "I am feeling ill." To the telephone flew...
...Mme Delacroix. Meanwhile her husband rose unsteadily and she had to put down the instrument to help him into an arm chair. The sleepy switchboard boy seemed to take eons to raise the hotel doctor. Before he arrived the heart of Leon Delacroix had stopped...