Word: mme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Savior-hero of Alsace-Lorraine is dry, statistical old Raymond Poincaré, War-time president of France. When he went a-visiting last week with Mme Poincare to Kayserberg, Alsatians were happy, thronged Kayserberg's Hotel de Ville. A pretty girl with flaxen hair stepped from their midst and spoke with plain dignity...
...Mme Poincaré kissed the child. The unemotional old man stood still. His lips moved. His face was taut. He gestured faintly. There was a long moment of fragile silence. Gradually one realized that he, several army officers and many of the populace were in tears...
Recently fortune has frowned on kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Augustine. Year ago he was driven from power. Month ago, interned by the government on an estate at Kroettingen as a menace to public safety he made an abortive effort to escape (TIME, Aug. 11). Fortnight ago Mme Waldemaras went to a fortune teller. The oracle, emerging from his trance, informed Mme Waldemaras that her husband would regain political power over the bodies of twelve persons. She went back to the internment farm and that night M & Mme Waldemaras drew up a little list. First on the list was Colonel Rusteika...
...Bucharest: 1) That Carol had abandoned all hope of reconciliation with Helen, was trying to arrange a wedding with a member of the house of Bourbon-Orleans of France, "probably the Duchess of Guise." 2) That Carol would be crowned alone, would have a morganatic marriage with red-headed Mme Magda Lupescu. Correspondents realized that even a morganatic marriage with Mme Lupescu would cause the finest series of anti-Semitic outbreaks Rumania has ever seen, that the Duchess of Guise is 52, and married to the Pretender to the throne of France. Married too are her three daughters. Rumania quickly...
...Hungarian Press reported that ex-Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, unlikely pretender to the throne of Hungary, had given up all pretensions, declared he would marry a Mme Irene Lelbach Rudnay. Said the onetime Archduke: "I want to create a little Hungarian paradise in Brazil...