Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lily grows. What if a commercial scheme was parent to a national Mothers' Day? Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...
...Friedmann, pleading not guilty, admitted that he was a Communist, that he knew of the plans to blow up the Cathedral, but called the attempt "a stupid thing which could not have had anything like a practical result." The Government charged that the wife of a former Premier (probably Mme. Stambulisky) was implicated...
...Died. Mme. Alexandrine Gabrielle Meley Zola, 86, widow of the famed French novelist, famile Zola; in Paris...
...Enfant et les Sortileges, an opera ballet by Maurice Ravel with a libretto by Mme. Colette, was recently given its premier in Monte Carlo, will be heard in Paris next season and thereafter brought...
...Died. Mme. Olga Novikoff, 77, famed Russian political writer; in London. She defended the Slavonic cause, endeavored to promote an Anglo-Russian alliance, worked with and on Gladstone, Matthew Arnold, Carlyle. She is credited with having averted an Anglo-Russian...