Word: mme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mme. Joliot-Curie, daughter of famed Physicist Marie Curie, is a distinguished nuclear physicist in her own right, a Nobel prizewinner and the wife of a Communist. Like her husband, Frederic, she is also a member of France's Atomic Research Commission. Late one afternoon last week, Mme. Curie stepped off an Air France plane at La Guardia Field. Waiting to meet her was Dr. Edward Barsky, chairman of the Communist-front Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, under whose auspices Mme. Curie was to lecture...
Before Dr. Barsky could greet his distinguished guest, immigration officials hustled Mme. Curie out of sight. Four hours later reporters caught a glimpse of her, looking ruffled and harassed, as she was bundled into a car and whisked off into the night...
...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...
...Wasn't It Fun?" Instantly the fight became a free-for-all. Mme. Thorez (Jeannette Vermeerseh) screamed. Thorez, dabbing his bloody face with a handkerchief, tried to get up. His friends yelled "Agent provocateur!'' and "Hold him!" at Laurent; they attacked the group of flyers. A frantic Russian shouted "Nyet! Nyet!" A French major who tried to restore calm was tossed out into the gutter. Ambassador Bogomolov, safe in a corner, roared with laughter...
...Mme. Miville-Dechêne, it was a busy and wonderful season-but an expensive one. She had spent $50 on Noël for food alone, would spend as much again on le jour de Van. But she was philosophic : "C'est cher. Mais c'est Noel...