Word: billeter
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...castle--all are singularly purposeless. They neither concern themselves with the world at large, nor wish to, until the eldest daughter, Jane, finds a packet of love letters in a dusty trunk in the attic. This event, of course, changes all their lives, for the author of these billet doux was none other than the one great passion of both the elderly women in the castle. He had died on a foreign field in World War I. By falling in love with the love-letters. Jane awakens here circle from its lethargy and prepares herself to find her own happiness...
Wastrel's Billet. Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, 18, was the dreamy, wastrel son of John Canfield Spencer, U.S. Secretary of War under President John Tyler. Thrust into the Navy by his stern father as a last resort, young Playboy Spencer found the ship's discipline and crowded quarters unbearable...
...poetry pages, Derry Griscom's "What Passes Upon the Journey," not only rhymes but very nearly scans. The poem, however, grows more obscure in each verse and his fifth stanza is marred by a series of strained images. Peter Junger's four-line verse, "Billet Doux," is not obscure but its clarity is its only recommendation. Although erratic in its rhyming scheme, David Chandler's "The Paradox," shows a forceful imagination and a facile handling of his subject. The poem moves from earthy allegory to the metaphysical with a minimum of roughness...
...most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter's control, became a resort for West Germany's newest royalty: Ruhr industrialists and movie stars...
...blacks. In the hymnbooks used in 300 bush schools supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta's name has been substituted for that of Jesus Christ. Charged as the "leading spirit" of the Mau Mau movement, Kenyatta was packed off to a "not very comfortable" billet in the North Kenya desert-miles & miles of sunbaked lava crumbling like broken biscuit. With him, under guard, went most of the staff of K.A.U. What Next? Governor Baring's anti-Mau Mau drive seemed at first sight to be working-though the government freely admitted that the Kikuyu tribe remains "sullen and unpleasant...