Word: chalet
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...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...
...safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope the car was bringing him back again through the park, stopping at the door of the house he has made his ultima thule. There had been no fever, no aftermath. At the Chalet de Riond Bossons Madame Paderewski continued her interest in the red and whites and her husband when he felt strong enough walked gingerly down the path to watch them working on the greenhouse. His sailing, booked for Oct. 6, had been slightly postponed. He plans to arrive in the U. S. about...