Word: chalet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss chalet at New Paltz, N.Y., Oscar (Tschirky) of the Waldorf, in semi-retirement since 1943, observed his 83rd birthday at a quiet family dinner...
Welcome. In one tiny chalet there was a double bed for Alf and Mary, a double-decker for the kids, a washstand and a bureau with a bouquet of flowers, but Alf, his Butlineer's badge pinned proudly to his breast, had little time to admire it all. Three gongs sounded and from overhead came a lady's voice, soft and refined as marshmallow: "This is Radio Butlin. Welcome, campers, it is now 12:45. In 15 minutes lunch will be served...
...role of Grimes) arrived in the U.S. in 1939, moved in with Auden, in an arty household at 7 Mid-dagh Street in Brooklyn. It was a ramshackle, remodeled four-story brownstone whose architecture had fascinated Auden and his friends: from the street it looked something like a Swiss chalet. It was there that Negro Author Richard Wright later wrote Black Boy, and Novelist Carson Me Cullers wrote Reflections in a Golden Eye. Composer Paul Bowles worked at his Mexican ballet on the parlor piano (until Benjy quietly asked that Bowles move his piano to the basement...
Also, the Laurentian range extending from Tremblant three hours south to Montreal offers many closely connected resorts like Saint Marguerite, with a T-bar lift and the luxurious Chalet Cochaud, Saint Adole, and Saint Adole both with rope tows. None have the extensiveness of facilities or size of hills that many New England resorts possess, claim Americans...
Supply and management of a camp for French, Swiss, and Austrian children in a Swiss chalet for two months this summer, the second 'Cliffe project, will involve Harvard workers...