Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These attacks had undoubtedly greatly angered Caillaux; for one day in March, 1914, there appeared at the office of the Figaro Mme. Caillaux, third wife of Joseph, herself a divorcee. Her card was handed to Calmette, who with a gesture of impatience, showed it to Paul Bourget. "What are you going to do?" said the latter. "She is a woman. I must receive her," replied Calmette...
...When Mme. Caillaux entered the office, Calmette received her politely, asked what he could do. Said she: "It is needless for me to pretend that I am making a friendly call." She then took out her revolver, fired one shot. M. Calmette fell to the ground. Mme. Caillaux then fired the remaining four shots, only one missed. The anger of the Parisiens was aroused. Caillaux was repeatedly attacked by furious mobs and the day following the murder he resigned...
Despite the strongest chain of evidence of premeditated murder, Mme. Caillaux was acquitted by a jury, after a sensational trial?apparently upon the novel ground that if the doctors called in to attend Calmette had given him the proper treatment he would not have died. Meanwhile, Joseph Caillaux had stood for reëlection and was once more a Deputy in Paris...
...more canine spectators for another "big bang." There was a telegram for him: President Poincare had courteously asked him to refrain from using dogs in deference to the popular outcry which his experiments were raising. As the Premier is an ardent devotee of cats, it was suggested that Mme. Poincare may have had something to do with the Premier's action, because she has a strong affection for dogs...
...bent and broken pieces of steel- a subject that has not as yet become hackneyed. Others that stand out are the lithograph, Mother with Child, by 17-year-old Pamela Bianco (TIME, March 24), an expressive piece; the Lady in Yellow, by Leo Katz, a classic portrait of Mme. Archipenko clad in voluminous drapery; a barnyard scene by Stefan Hirsch; a nude by Bernard Karfiol...