Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mme. Wanda Landowska, Polish virtuoso, is a modern harpsichordist. A fortnight ago she performed charmingly upon her quaint old instrument to the accompaniment of the Chicago Orcestra...
...Turkey; at Toulon, France. Because, four years ago, he married a Protestant divorcée, the Archbishop of Paris at the last minute forbade Church rites at his funeral in the Saint Louis Chapel of the Invalides. In the presence of les maréchaux Joffre et Petain, Mme. Millerand and other friends, the military rites were conducted on the steps of the chapel...
...Mme. Grandjean took a pinch of snuff-and sneezed. She said her husband remarked: "It is ridiculous to use snuff at your age. Why not leave that for old people?" Retorted she: "So that's what you think?" And, picking up a revolver, she shot her ban man dead. "He made me so mad that I killed him unconsciously," she concluded to the police...
...devastated regions of France, who was last year decorated as an Officer of Agricultural Merit, was formally admitted to the Academy of Agriculture in Paris. She is the first woman member of this Academy and third woman to be elected to any Franch Academy. The other two were Mme. Curie, Academy of Medicine, the Queen of Rumania, Academy of Fine Arts. In welcoming Mrs. Dike, Pierre Viala, President of the Academy, said that the French population regarded "these American ladies as saints...
Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Mme Schumann-Heink will sing songs of Mozart, Liszt, Schubert, Beethoven and Wagner. To comment on Mme. Schumann-Heink's artistry would be superfluous...