Word: chalet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Varsity skiing squad have been working on the construction of a mountain cabin on the slopes of Mount Washington over the past weekend. The chalet while owned by the Mountaineering Club, will be used during the winter to accommodate Varsity and Freshman skiers, as guests of the club, during weekends of practice...
...Mondanne, the Stillman 55-room chalet at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. which was being opened for Dr. Stillman & family's summer occupancy, burned to the ground last week. The private fire brigade from the Rockefeller estate just to the south was handicapped by lack of fire hydrants...
...known, can do. He can pop his right eye out of his head, and draw it back into its socket. If that does not startle the beholder, he will pop out the left eye, then jerk the pair alternately in and out, like the boy & girl of the Swiss chalet barometer...
...predecessors, Author Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence.* It is a play about two tender-hearted but irascible worldlings who, having divorced each other and remarried, meet again on their second honeymoons. Re-captivated by each other, they scamper away from their new spouses, enjoy a truant honeymoon in an Alpine chalet. By the time the deserted and negligible husband and wife arrive at the chalet, the place has been turned into a shambles. The truants have spent the second act in airy lovemaking, flip bickering, pillow-fights, blows. Next morning all four have breakfast together. High words are spoken. Norma Shearer...
...elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon also weaves the filmy spell of a dissolving world. . . ." Among his more than 70 books: The Black and White Widow, A Doctor of Rare Ingenuity, Torero Caracho, The Chalet of the Roses, The Incongruous...