Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium, arrived in Manhattan, was greeted by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young. She went to stay with her longtime friend...
Pretty, resourceful Mme Andrée Viollis was last week the first journalist to enter Afghanistan's freshly captured capital Kabul (TIME, Oct. 21). Her paper Le Petit Parisien had staked her to an airplane. With quick, appraising, bright French eyes she took the measure of the Conqueror, potent Nadir Khan, told how he rode through the streets on a prancing charger preceded by musicians, how his swart warriors danced and sang, how the people hailed him with shouts of "Liberator! Liberator!" Nadir had liberated Kabul from "The Usurper," rapacious Bandit-King Habibullah. But as the professed champion...
...baby was born, died. M. Allemand-the only one who knew-forced his hand, won the girl for his wife, thus vastly increasing his social status. But by that time he had become village librarian and Mme Bourrat devised a theory that he was the bastard son of a noble, thereby salving her own social consciousness and impressing her relatives. As for the girl-she would have been happy to marry anyone...
...Pronounced Maud-ruh-geh-yehv-sky, shortened to Mode-geh-ski when Mme. Modrze-jewska took out her U. S. naturalization papers...
...Continuation of meeting of International seismologists at Pasadena, Calif. Problem: more accurate measurements of speed of earthquakes. Oct. 15-Mme. Marie Curie arrives in U. S. to receive a second gram of radium from U. S. admirers...