Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mme. Plateau had, as a matter of fact, asked the jury to grant extenuating circumstances to her son's murderess...
...Ambassadors, Ministers and Charges d'Affaires of 49 nations, with their wives, their secretaries and attaches (from two to a score for each nation) and the wives of the secretaries and attaches. One notable group who conversed together in the Blue Room after being received included, Ambassador and Mme. Jusserand of France, Ambassador and Baroness de Cartier of Belgium, Ambassador and Frau Wiedfeldt of Germany...
...again played by the Metropolitan Opera Company until last week. Then Marta was produced with Mr. Beniamino Gigli in Caruso's role of Lionel. There was new scenery by Joseph Urban and new comedy business embellishing "one of the most delectable of the tutti-frutti operas." Mme. Alda was lovely as Lady Harriet and Mr. Gigli was lovelorn. His voice was a delight "only exceeded by the great Caruso...
...Paris, some weeks ago, Madame Silvain, famed tragedienne, was acting in a Greek drama, with the sword of Damocles suspended not by a hair but by a cord over her head. Malicious colleagues cut the cord. The sword fell-so did Mme. Silvain's left ear. Last week she was awarded $2,000 damages...
...Bohemia, from which uranium was extracted by the Austrian Government. By a new method of chemical analysis based on measuring the radioactivity of various fractions with delicate electrical apparatus, they were able to announce in July, 1898, the existence of a new radio-active element, polonium (named for Mme. Curie's native country, Poland), and, in December, of the most powerful of all such elements, radium. It was not until 1902, however, that they could prepare a decigram of chloride of pure radium, and from its spectrum determine its atomic weight...