Word: zizi
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...were startled to find a signed Utrillo hanging on the wall. That started them on the trail of what may be the biggest ring of art forgers in recent years. Last week Paris cops nabbed the artist who forged the Utrillos. She was one Mme. Juliette Claude La Tour-"Zizi" to her Montmartre friends...
...Zizi, a middle-aged little lady with brown, shoulder-length hair, was sorry to be caught, but said she was not a bit sorry to stop copying Utrillo. The 63-year-old modern's cool, empty streets thrilled her not at all, said Zizi. It would be hard to forge the art of her favorites, Da Vinci and Velasquez, she said, "but my Utrillos are better painted than the master...
...must have appeared as if the confused and scandalous state of affairs long chronic inside the Rumanian Royal Family had now spread to the kingdom at large in a more appalling form. When he was in his cradle his father was two-timing with the now forgotten Mme. Zizi Lambrino. When he was a lad of five Mihai was made King under a Regency, but three years later, in 1930, Scapegrace Carol flew back from exile and with Army backing took the throne from his son. Jesuitical historians last week could recall nobody else since the world began...
...first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World War I, the young Prince, serving as a Colonel, left his regiment, journeyed to Odessa, Russia, and there, after marrying 22-year-old Zizi Lambrino, the dashing daughter of a Rumanian officer, renounced all his rights to the throne...
...King. His Majesty feels that his "sacrifice" in not marrying his Mrs. Simpson No. 1 is one which leaves all Rumania under a debt of gratitude to the Throne. In holding this opinion King Carol glosses over or forgets that in his youth he took a morganatic wife, Mme Zizi Lambrino, put her aside to marry Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, who is the mother of Rumanian Crown Prince Mihai, and not only was divorced but actually abdicated as Crown Prince prior to his triumphal restoration as King (TIME, June 16, 1930). This behavior by King Carol...