Word: ch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief excitement was in the little Belgian Château of Steenockerzeel, near Louvain, where Archduke Otto and his indomitable mother, his seven brothers and sisters have been living for over a year. Night before "the birthday every window in the chateau was ablaze with lights for a birthday dinner. Otto himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe. Ex-Empress Zita, in dead black, her only jewelry a large gold cross, sat at his right. With...
Equally panicky but less picturesque than M. Chéron, England's Daily Mail, organ of Red-baiting Viscount Rothermere, declared that Soviet lumber was being offered "on the quiet" in London last week for $55.20 per "standard" (a standard equals 200 board feet; a board foot is a piece of lumber one foot square, one inch thick), a terrific cut under the London basic price of $65.25. Charging that a deal at this Red cut price had already been made by London's Central Softwood Buying Corp. Ltd. the Daily Mail moaned: "This will depress the value...
...Ravel. She knows so much about food that even the French consider her a gourmet. Animal-lover, she keeps wild dogs, wild cats in her Paris apartment. She reads very little. Short, thickset, she has wood-colored hair, long grey slanting eyes, speaks in a deep alto. Other books: Chéri, La Vagabonde. La Naissance du Jour, L'Entrave...
...heart wrung by reports of starvation and suffering, "Emperor" Hsuan Tung who now modestly calls himself Mr. Henry P'u-yi searched for a famine relief gift among the remnants of the Manchu Treasure which now comprise his small fortune. Rummaging, he found some antique Ch'ien Lung sables, perfectly preserved, fabulously prized in China. Turning his jewel box upside down, generous Henry counted out 800 pearls from the dwindling hoard. By a trusty messenger the Imperial pearls and Imperial sables were despatched "with Mr. Henry P'u-yi's compliments" to the chief Peking agency...
Lawless, the newly-formed London Gourmets Club ate plovers' eggs at their second banquet, fortnight ago, washed this typical sportsman's delicacy down with Château d'Yquem 1870 from the cellars of Eugenie, late ill-fated Empress of the French. After the dinner Charles Stambois, secretary of the club explained that "our plovers' eggs were not illegal because they were a gift," an excuse which the royal comptroller showed last week to be invalid. Nevertheless the board of agriculture, lax, had not up to last week taken steps against the Gourmets club...