Word: chalet
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...wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying him a compliment. His chateau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy skirt of pines, cedar, lindens...
...sleek male counterpart. Ensues a mutual struggle against sentiment. Even in Budapest it is difficult not to care for the person with whom one has an affair, so after the child is born, a tremulous surrender to the exigencies and joys of affection occurs high in a Swiss chalet. This cycle of repression and catharsis is endowed with the mysteries of personality and feeling by Actress Barrymore, statuesquely assisted by Louis Calhern...
...They traveled together, by necessity, but each one sat by himself, usually reading. In Manhattan, where they were most often, they stayed at separate hotels. For a month in the summer they took vacations apart. Two other months a year they spent in making programs and practicing in a chalet high in the Swiss Alps near the Villa Flonzaley...
Mexican peasants are quite apt to see an apparition of the Blessed Virgin almost anywhere, and forthwith convert the spot into a shrine. Even a chalet de nécessité became by this means a place of worship in Sonora. Last week a group of workmen were interrupted in preparing to dynamite a large rock near Guadalupe, by a mob of peasant women who insisted that the Mother of God had once sat upon that very rock. Agnostics, the dynamiters were unimpressed. Passionate, the women clung to the Virgin's rock, defied the workmen to blow them...
...book, his presence broods over the opening scene. A vast, shaggy, Rabelaisian music master, he has fled England and wandered through Europe accumulating wives, mistresses, children, disciples, renown. He has at last brought them all, "Sanger's Circus," to a sprawling chalet in the Austrian Tyrol. There, shut away with his boar hound, he is dying. His nubile daughters live in an abandon of cultured savagery, vivid but slatternly mixtures of profundity and ignorance...