Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...Supreme Court divided 6-to-3 against Mme. Schwimmer's application. Said Mr. Justice Butler in the majority opinion: ''It is the duty of citizens by force of arms to defend our Government. . . . Whatever tends to lessen the willingness of citizens to discharge their duty to bear arms . . . detracts from the strength and safety of the government. The influence of conscientious objectors ... is apt to be more detrimental than their mere refusal to bear arms. The fact that, by reason of sex, age or other cause they may be unfit to serve, does not lessen their purpose...
...anything like that although he was probably forced to admit that Olga Baclanova, in this instance, acted badly. The wife of an Englishman in Africa, she flirted with her husband's friends and finally with his brother. Clive Brook does not kill himself after all because he finds that Mme. Baclanova's perhaps necessary death in the last scene was not caused by the poison he put in her lime-juice but by a snakebite. Throughout this silly, badly directed, exciting picture Mme. Baclanova depicts an unpleasant character by wearing beautiful clothes, telling love stories, singing in a dramatic soprano...
Sued for Divorce. Joseph Frangois Sporturno, called "Coty," Paris perfumer-publisher; by Mme. "Coty." Charge: infidelity...
...fusillade of shots rang out. Lieut. Gudinas, the aide, fell, mortally wounded as he shielded Professor Valdemaras with his own body. The small grandnephew was shot in the stomach. A passing young girl was hit in the leg. "Furthermore," wired an agitated Lithuanian correspondent, "one of the bullets penetrated Mme. Valdemaras' clock...