Word: blancs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Camille Blanc, 81, founder of Monte Carlo's famed Casino; at Nice...
...defending poor clients who sought him at the inn. Strangely this scene was re-enacted last week in Geneva. Clients: representatives of all the Powers and half the nations of Europe. Briand: still Briand. Inn: the white, sumptuous Hotel des Bergues, overlooking Lac Leman and Overlooked by Towering Mont Blanc...
When this proposal was broached last week at Rome, the news traveled swiftly to Paris and there drew a loud, whinnying tening expedition, and seemed to have in mind that he would climb up the Italian side of Mont Blanc and perform the rechristening in despite of any French Alpinists who might be lurking near the summit...
...FRIGHTFULLY passé." Such has been the comment of smart folk, for several seasons, to anyone who proposed a visit to once smart Monte Carlo. Of course the crowds at the Casino tables have been as large as ever-but unfashionable. What to do? The families of Blanc, Radziwill, Bonaparte, chief stockholders in the Casino, have been puzzling for some time. They are now trying an experiment: Miss Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell is very large, very mirthful, very well known in the U. S. colony at Paris. There must, naturally, be a number of ladies thereabouts, who, for a consideration...
...good luncheon. As we sat down the clouds drifted away from before Mont Blanc, and the famous peak stood out in all its whiteness. And we both felt that its whiteness was not whiter than the whiteness of our souls...