Word: chalet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early spring in the mountains, and high, snow-cowled hotels are full of happy skiers. In her big chalet the American-born Countess, swanlike, impoverished and tired, presides over her porcelain shepherdesses and her American, English and French girl boarders. In the evening the handsome, resolutely corseted General will come to dazzle the girls at dinner and spend the night secretly with the Countess...
Maestro Toscanini apparently had become a Lucerne fixture: he rented a chalet on the lake, began building a permanent home there, was made an honorary citizen of the town. Last summer Toscanini saluted another musician who once lived on Lake Lucerne. In Richard Wagner's garden, Toscanini "reconstructed" the first performance of the Siegfried Idyll, which was a serenade to Wagner's mistress and wife-to-be, Cosima...
When Andre François-Poncet, former French Ambassador to Germany and now to Italy, went to the Bavarian Alps last October to take leave of Führer Adolf Hitler, he thought he was expected at the familiar Berghof, the Führer's well-known mountain chalet near Berchtesgaden. Not far from the Berghof, however, the driver took a different road, the car began to ascend a highway winding five miles up a steep mountain. Soon the highway became a mere shelf on the side of the mountain. Suddenly the road ended before two big bronze doors...
...poser is: "Will Hitler fight when it becomes definitely certain that he is losing that race?" The dynamics of dictatorship are such that few who have studied Fascism and its leaders can envision sexless, restless, instinctive Adolf Hitler rounding out a mellow middle age in his mountain chalet at Berchtesgaden while a satisfied German people drink beer and sing folk songs. There is no guarantee that the have-not nations will go to sleep when they have taken what they now want from the haves. To those who watched the closing events of the year it seemed more than probable...
...noted for its slender, popular-priced watches, had done little business during Depression. It was run by two quiet, conservative brothers, Fred and George Gruen, sons of Founder Dietrich Gruen, who died in 1911 after making the first thin pocket watch by flattening out the movement. With a Swiss chalet-style factory called Time Hill in Cincinnati, and another in Biel, Switzerland, the Gruens operated along conservative lines, licensed one or two dealers to a city, clung to the prestige of their name regardless of profits...