Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers recalled that Mme. Moscicki, wife of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland, is Chairman of the Executive Board of the Polish Y. M. C. A., an organization built up since the War with funds contributed from the U. S., though there are today only five U. S. citizens employed by the Polish...
Lolling like a plush pansy on the cushioned floor of her boudoir in their suburban mansion, Mme. Clemente vents her jealousy and disapproval of Crystal's wild-honeymoons, by telling all to the newspapers. That is where the narrator comes in, as an astute young literata fresh from the wheat belt, starved for silk lingerie and articulate courtship. An editor from whose gentle, sadistic lip cigarets droop two and three at a time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings...
...Mme. Schumann-Heink believes that American men give their women much too much freedom. "American men are undoubtedly the finest I know, but they are cowards in their relations with women! They are afraid of losing them if they assert themselves. That is the state to which our men are dominated by women...
...according to the great contralto is the happy home, and that can only exist if the man rules. Not only the children but the wife as well should look up to and revere the father in every household. American women are quite on a par with our men in Mme. Schumann-Heink's opinion, but they should do something practical with their time instead of wasting it as they do today...
...Hankow, Michael Markovitch Borodin communicated frantically with Moscow and Soviet Russian representatives in Peking and Shanghai. Soon "demands" were made by the Soviet Government upon the great Northern War Lord Chang Tsolin, theoretically the feudal superior of the Shantung Chang. The two Changs were informed that they must release Mme. Borodin, her couriers, her baggage, and the S. S. Pamiat Lenina. But Mme. Borodin was not released. To rescue her, Russia must send much gold, or many men, offer some great concession, or concoct some really potent threat. "Mrs. Grosberg," Chinese thought, is likely to prove the most valuable hostage...