Word: mme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charleroi, Belgium, Gynecologist Jules Hustin had just delivered Mme. Berthe Mahaux of a boy by Caesarean section when her heart stopped. He thrust his hand upward through the Caesarean incision until his fingers could feel the heart. He massaged the heart for five minutes. It began to beat again. Last week Mme. Mahaux and her son went home in good shape...
Last year,with two illegitimate children, aged two and four, Sylvie went to live in Paris' ramshackle Hotel du Theatre, a dingy four-story affair, its walls faced with chipped plaster, its windows hung with drying laundry. It was owned by Sylvie's old prison cellmate, Mme. Jeanne Perron, an amiable reformed fence known to most of her friends as Aunt Jeanne. Her little niece, Denise LeRoy, 12, soon moved in to join Sylvie's children, and in time the family circle was swelled by a handsome young Arab, Abdellah Saoulite, who had fallen prey to Sylvie...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...
...Carlos had provided a special party for the common folk, including soft drinks, which they paid for, a free Punch & Judy show, and a contest to see who could climb to the top of a greased pole. There was even some mingling between the two worlds. One reporter spotted Mme. Louis Arpels (her husband is the famed Paris jeweler) dancing with an open-shirted Venetian lad in the courtyard...
...Punch in the Nose. It was at Mme. Lebrun's in 1949 that Claire, a lanky, plain girl of 18, met Father Luciano Negrini, an English-speaking Italian priest, 41 years old. A veteran of 15 years as a missionary in China, Father Negrini had been sent by his bishop to the U.S. to win friends and funds for the mission in Hupeh. He won so close a friend in Claire that last September U.S. ecclesiastical authorities sent him back to Italy under charges of "bad conduct...