Word: chalet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real remorse for 1939-45. "That was war," they say, and wave a hand to dismiss even the atrocities. They flock to Berchtesgaden by the thousand for pilgrimage climbs over Hitler's favorite mountain. You meet them even on the slopes-marked Verboten to Germans-around his chalet and eagle's nest eyrie. They turn stony faces to foreigners on the mountain as though the latter's mere presence on the sacred soil were sacrilege...
...stands to gain. He is sharp-eyed Joaquim Rolla, owner of the Quitandinha Hotel. Anxious to stamp a legitimate "Quitandinha" dateline on the deliberations, Rolla got the Brazilian Government to install a postoffice in the building. Recently his pressagent, dining a group of reporters at the lakeside chalet, hopped up and cried, "Wait a minute, gentlemen." The reporters, forks in midair, waited. "Remember," he shouted, "this is to be the Quitandinha Conference...
...including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand to the simplest and cheapest French Canadian farmhouse...
...Kirkpatrick, sued his ex-mother-in-law for alienation of affections, two years after his wife divorced him. Mrs. Reid Bronson, the ex-mother-in-law, retorted that Dilling had "lured" her daughter by "claiming he was heir to ... $100,000 . . . and would take her to ... a Swiss chalet." Mother Dilling managed to get into the act. Said she: "It's all a New Deal smear...
...matrons are Frau Keitel (her husband, like Field Marshal Göring, has been detained on business in Nürnberg) and young Frau von Blomberg (who met her late husband, the War Minister, in one of Berlin's most exclusive brothels); they share a ten-room chalet high above the lake...