Word: chalet
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...Before 1936, Buenos Aires was notorious as a main terminal in the international white-slave trade, and bordellos flourished in every Argentine city. One of the most lavish was Madam Safe's spacious chalet in the city of Rosario. The staircases were marble, the curtains red velvet, the bedclothes silk, the girls mainly French or Polish, and the going rate about the equivalent of an average white-collar worker's weekly wage...
...Retreat. A month ago, as he had done for many summers, he and his wife Francesca moved into their summer chalet near the tiny, Alpine hamlet of Sella. At 73, De Gasperi was worn and haggard. His heart was tired. He was ordered to rest, but he continued anxiously to write and phone Christian Democratic leaders in Rome. He was increasingly distressed by France's attitude toward the EDC he had helped create. One day last week he had a slight heart attack...
Concerned chiefly with the theft of the Bruce-Partington submarine plans, the play bounced all over London before shifting to the Swiss chalet of Professor Moriarty (Thomas Gomez). Here Holmes and his great adversary were locked in that death plunge from which Holmes had later (in the face of a clamoring public) to be restored to life. The plunge mattered less in the present case, since Holmes was scarcely alive before. Actor Rathbone made a very recognizable but far from inimitable figure of him; in the script Holmes was not much of a brain, and in the acting...
...focus interest on the stage are even more lamentable. The enormous cast keeps the stage constantly cluttered, particularly since some of the sets have at least four doors or windows which spew forth actors from time to time. Two of the sets, the Baker Street flat and a mountain chalet, are excellent, but the partitioning of the stage to present flashbacks which could be far better expressed in a sentence of dialogue makes the clutter hopeless. In the general disarray, the involved tale of the stolen Bruce-Partington plans is all the more difficult to follow...
...Pandit Strikes. One morning last week, Nehru moved before dawn against the Lion of Kashmir. It was 3 a.m. A thunderstorm drenched the chalet resort of Gulmarg, where Abdullah slept. Police awakened him and read a letter from Prince Karan Singh, the nominal ruler of Kashmir. Abdullah's cabinet was dissolved; he himself was under arrest. In Srinagar, the run-down capital, 30 members of Abdullah's staff were also arrested, accused of "disruptionism," corruption, nepotism, maladministration, and intrigue with a foreign power. Indian papers hinted that Adlai Stevenson, who had visited Srinagar last May, was Abdullah...