Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second state dinner of the season was given at the White House for the Diplomatic Corps. Diplomats, the Secretary of State, the chairmen of the Congressional committees on Foreign Relations and their wives were the guests. Afterward a musicale was given, with Beniamino Gigli and Mme. Madeleine Brard as artists...
Hardly had this hubbub died down than the Grand Duke arrived, landed. With him were the Grand Duchess, whom Boris married in Paris six years ago; Mme. Rachevsky, mother-in-law; Princess Natalie, niece; Baron Nicholas Crown, secretary. The Grand Duke-a man just over medium height, 47 years old, with a quizzical round face on the top of which grows a fringe of dark hair turning grey and into which is set a pair of jovial, navy-blue eyes-was highly delighted to be in the U. S. Even the assaults of the everlasting newspaper squad could not extinguish...
...Marie Leschetizky, final wife of the late Theodor Leschetizky, famed Viennese music teacher,* about to make her Manhattan debut. After due trouble with her chair, she addressed herself to a highly uneventful performance of a Bach Sicilienne. Bach, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy followed; in all of whose works Mme. Leschetizky strove courageously to support the improbable theory that the Kingdom of Heaven can be taken by storm...
...Jean Herbette, accompanied by Mme. Herbette and an embassy staff, left Paris for Moscow to take up his duties as first French Ambassador to Bolshevik Russia, successor to the last French Ambassador to Imperial Russia, M. Maurice Paléologue...
...Gare de l'Est, the Bolshevik Ambassador and his wife, M. and Mme. Leonid Krassin, bade the party bon voyage and bon chance...