Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their Majesties called upon bachelor President Gaston Doumergue at the Élysée and remained to luncheon. Among those present were Premier Painlevé, Foreign Minister Briand, Minister of Marine Borel, ex-President and Mme. Raymond Poincaré. Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux was tactfully absent. The King afterwards invested Premier Painlevé with the insignia of a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order...
When, in 1898, the waters of Havana Harbor were settling uncertainly over what was left of the battleship Maine and thousands of young bankers, brokers, litterateurs and demagogs abandoned their occupations to become chambermaids to mules, Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Her bosom did not tremble nor her knees quiver as she thrilled the assemblage with the resonance, flexibility and persuasion of her voice, for she was, even then, no neophyte. She had done her Azucena in Trovatore 20 years earlier in Dresden, her Erda in London, Bayreuth and Berlin. Manhattan...
...distinguished scientific career. The degree was swiftly conferred. Female doctors of science are by no means common at the Sorbonne, but this particular one had elaborated upon an important discovery made by her mother. It was Mlle. Irene Curie, of Paris, continuing the radiological research of her mother, Mme. Curie, joint discoverer of radium. Mlle. Irene's thesis was on the alpha rays of polonium...
Premier and Mme. Edouard Herriot were also present, but the former, as he was suffering from a cold, did not speak, but sat huddled in a greatcoat, the collar of which was turned up during the whole ceremony. He, however, remained heroically bareheaded until the conclusion of the President's speech...
Divorced. Alexander Kerensky, Premier of the Russian revolutionary Government of 1917, now editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper in Prague, by Mme. Kerensky; in Leningrad. She charged desertion...