Word: biarritzes
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...postponed their wedding again and again, eventually decided to go through with it, lived with his or her family for two years. Finally, in desperation, they moved into roomier quarters with an uncle on a chicken farm in the Landes, the sparsely populated coastal stretch between Bordeaux and Biarritz...
...Director John Huston. In the last five years, he has gone to even greater lengths in the interest of his column. He has bobsledded at St. Moritz, dined at the pasha's palace at Marrakech, French Morocco, and at the Marquis de Cuevas' fancy-dress ball at Biarritz (TIME, Sept. 14), he turned up barelegged, bewigged and dressed as an American Indian with a sign on his back: "Us Go Home." "It's simply amazing," says Buchwald, "to think I've been to all those many places...
...After a minute of silence I added: 'Your Highness will be going to Biarritz and Cannes. When you visit those places, please go out on the beach. You will find lots of women here and there almost naked. You will see more than you will at a revue. But, Your Highness, it would be advisable to wear smoked glasses...
...Marquis awaits you," cried the flunkeys at the gates, holding their torches aloft in welcome. The queues of costumed party guests, who had been carefully screened by attendants assigned to bar gatecrashers, filed in. Biarritz' Chiberta Country Club was in ornate fancy dress for the occasion, made up in false front by New York decorator Valerian Rybar to look like an iSth century chateau. The 2,000-odd guests, including some 50 princes, 20 dukes, 95 counts, 35 marquesses and one sad and shopworn King (Peter of Yugoslavia), were all supposed to dress in the same (circa 1750) style...
...paying [my salary]. There was a terrible scene whenever I asked for money." The children's food was coarse, the farm milk was often sour, their clothes were made of cheap material. To improve these conditions, Sister Madeleine ran up debts, stole jewelry and silver to sell in Biarritz. Said she: "I lived a life of torment at the château, because I knew that someday I would be found out. But I had the arms of my dear little children around my neck. It was a good time...