Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Private Fowler's regiment, the Tenth British Hussars, sent ?100 ($486) to Mme. Belmont-Gobert, found to be in actual want. When news of this gift reached Paris, the HONOR OF FRANCE was invoked by War Minister Paul Painlevé who demanded in the Chamber that further British gifts be made unnecessary by the granting of a pension to Dame Belmont-Gobert...
...Pamiat Lenina swung away from the bund at Shanghai, slowly churned her steadygoing way up the great river Yangtze. Mme. Borodin left her cabin and stood on the bridge with the Captain...
...Nationalist ship must run a doubtful gauntlet of anti-Nationalist Chinese and "White Russian" troops at Pukow before she could reach the upper Yangtze and the Nationalist Capital* Hankow. As Pukow was reached and the usual river patrol boat full of Chinese soldiers put off from the shore, Mme. Borodin and her three couriers steeled themselves to weasel out of many a question...
Louts, the couriers broke down first, told contradictory stories. Suddenly the Chinese officer rapped at Mme. Borodin...
...absolute truth. From 1908 to 1917 she and her famed husband were indeed Mr. and Mrs. Grosberg, proprietors of Berg's Progressive Preparatory School at Chicago, Ill. Last week, however, this lying-truth availed nothing. The Chinese officer had probably been warned by spies in advance of Mme. Borodin's coming. He arrested her and the couriers, put them on an armored train under heavy guard, and rushed them as valuable hostages to Tsinan, Shantung, capital of their chief enemy, "Chang of Shantung," notorious, unprincipled War Lord...