Word: momo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most spectacular members of the French branch of the House of Rothschild are paunchy Baron Maurice ("Momo") who was once unseated from the French Assembly for flagrant vote-buying, and gaunt Baron James ("Jimmie") who fancies flashy clothes, horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built...
...judged according to the scantiness of their pajamas or the tint to which they have burned their skins at Deauville or Juan-les-Pins, soft, squashy, exquisite Baron Maurice de Rothschild is generally on hand to pass on their face and form. The women call him "Momo" and his pajamas are a sight to rival theirs. In France he used to be regularly elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later...
...Japanese Admiralty received a news flash from Shanghai that a Chinese mob had "brutally beaten" two Japanese women on Yangtzepoo Road at 5:30 p. m. Out ripped Admiralty orders. By 6:30 p. m. the Japanese destroyers Hinoki and Momo were streaking for Shanghai, chief Chinese port. At dawn two more Japanese destroyers followed...