Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtain fell on the last scene but one in the little drama in the Chateau d'Ouchy at Lausanne...
...King Albert: "As my mount galloped about the Chateau de Laequen, he caught his foot in a hole and was thrown, with the result that a bone in my wrist was broken...
...beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet curtains, he devotes himself to lamenting the vanished glories of his ancestral chateau...
Francesco Nitti sat in the historic halls of the Chateau de Versailles when he was Premier of Italy as the head of the Italian delegation during the whole of the first peace conference that followed the war. He had, therefore, some small part in framing that notorious document known as the Treaty of Versailles, and as a corollary, his book is based mainly upon first hand information. Signor...
...plot is concerned with the cruel villainies of a pair of French Canadians attempting to mulct the poor girl of her rightful inheritance in timber lands. The hero arrives in time to prevent the mulcting. There is a fight which spatters blood all over a perfectly good chateau and a good job in bridge dynamiting. The rest of the action is adequately exciting...