Word: tre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Republicanism" when the Elverson family bought it 45 years ago. Old James Elverson and his son James Jr. successively published it until the son died in 1929. His widow followed him several months later, and control of the Inquirer passed to his sister, Eleanore Elverson Patenôtre...
...Patenôtre was born 64 years ago in Philadelphia. When she was 24 she met Jules Patenôtre, the French Ambassador, at a Washington party, was married to him by the late Cardinal Gibbons. A son, Raymond, was born at Atlantic City in 1900. Soon thereafter the Patenôtres went abroad to live. Raymond grew up a Frenchman. Mme Patenôtre who has visited the U. S. about ten times in 30 years, had little interest in the Philadelphia Inquirer when her brother's will dumped it into her lap. Gladly she sold...
Madame Walska concentrated then on perfumes. But luxury articles slumped first in Depression and she got out of business, bought the Théâtre des Champs Elysées which she still owns. Singing remains Walska's passion but the Philadelphia audience was hard put to understand why last week. She cannot get along without her notes. Each song sounds just like the last. What tone she has is thin and warbly. Yet with the scantiest encouragement she comes back beaming to teeter through an encore. The Philadelphia Record said: "Madame Walska's art is that...
...fire on the speedboat of U.S.-born Raymond Patenôtre, French UnderSecretary of National Economy, forced him and 15 guests to pump fire extinguishers frantically, then leap into the Mediterranean. Last to leap was 68-year-old Lady Mendl (onetime Elsie de Wolfe, famed interior decorator), who obeyed only when her husband cried: "Damn it all, jump!" Towed 150 yards to shore by the Marquis d'Alemeida, said she: "That 10 minutes' work with the fire extinguishers was the only manual labor most of the men had done in their lives...
...complete sets of dishes and utensils. Salting (melihah) of meat to remove all blood is a final koshering rite. The rabbis, however, allow for "neutral," or parve foods-vegetables, grain products, fish, eggs. Neutral dishes may be prepared as meaty or milky. An illegitimate mixture of foods is tre- fah or terephah. Terephah literally means "an animal torn by wild beasts." It applies especially to the slaughter of animals, or shechitah. Shechitah. The shochet is the one who does the slaughtering. One may not be a shochet if he is a deaf-mute, idiot, minor, one who is intoxicated...