Word: athenee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ATHENE PALACE-Countess Waldeck--McBrlde ($2.75).
The Countess Waldeck takes current history out of the funeral parlor and puts it into the Grand Hotel. Her book is as perversely engrossing, gossipy and gamy as a clandestine conversation in the lobby. Her Grand Hotel is the Athene Palace in Bucharest, "the last cosmopolitan stage on which post...
*Cadmus, Prince of Phoenicia, slew a dragon with Athene's help: its teeth, when sown, sprang from the earth as fully armed soldiers.