Word: mondaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secretary to Henri Letellier and occasional pinch-hitting director of Le Journal in his absence, Erskine Gwynne naturally acquired the bibulous intimacy with Le Monde Mondain which has enabled him to found and float The Boulevardier. Today he claims 7,000 subscribers, and a larger Paris circulation than the international Paris Comet, a rival smart-chart published simultaneously in Paris, London, and Manhattan...
Also, last week, the French Academy of Sciences−and the scientific world in general−was advised by one of its members, M. Daniel Berthelot, that two friends of his, Messieurs J. Risler and P. Mondain, had a preventative and a cure for radiodermitis. Noting that the long-waved infra-red heat rays are antagonistic to shorter-waved constituents of the Xray, such as the potent ultra-violet*Risler and Mondain had contrived a "ray filter" of plastic material, penetrable only by the infra-red and yellow rays. The long-waved rays thus filtered out were then applied...
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