Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likewise with shameful diseases. . . . We did not mean to kill him but only to defend our Sainted Mother Marie, whose statue of the Blessed Virgin now weeps* night and day. . . . We await such punishment as may be meted out to us as martyrs. We have only done our duty." Mme. Robert, who had declared earlier that she was the last to flog the Abbé des Noyers before he swooned, opened her testimony with a prayer. Said she: "We were often bounced about in our beds by this wicked man working his sorcery." "She lies!" cried...
...James Bradbury Jr., the talented Swiss comedian, was being sobered up off stage, and Mme. Dorothy Hall as stenographer Joan Thayer rested her head against the shoulder of her millionaire husband, impersonated by Mr. John Warner, and cooed...
...Bordeaux cult, the noted order of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs (Our Lady of Tears), has flourished for 21 years, since its foundation by one Mme. Marie Mesmin, "Sainted Mother Marie" (onetime concierge), and a Syrian priest, "The Archimandrite Sibourgi," who in 1920, quarreled with Mme. Mesmin, "laid a curse upon her," and returned to Syria...
...Abbé des Noyers declared last week that, far from being a member of the cult, he had originally been called to Bordeaux at the request of Mme. Mesmin, who wished him to dispel her curse...
...Mme. Mesmin's followers, "chiefly of the well-to-do middle class, men and women from 17 to 70," declared on the other hand, that the Abbé had not only joined the cult and participated in its rites of flagellation, but had aspired to supersede Mme. Mesmin, and had accordingly instigated a young girl to murder her on Christmas night. The girl failed in this alleged attempt, but early in the week Mme. Mesmin's loyal adherents set out for Bombon, "to discipline the Abbé des Noyers...