Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. M. Villers, head gardener at the Chateau de Bonapart, Paris, a suicide, because frost had killed off all his begonias, each & every...
...music in the South was formal and surrounded with cold, music in the North was warm and humble, made gay by the climbing spring. At the Chateau Frontenac, in Quebec, was held the second annual Canadian Folk Song and Handicraft Festival...
...Marquise. An English youth named Noel Coward wrote The Vortex (London 1924, Manhattan 1925) and since then disciples have awaited another play as good. The Marquise is another not so good. It is about a lady who descended upon a French chateau to see her old lover and her child by him. Soon she found the child affianced to a neighbor's son, also her child. It is carefully explained that save for these two slips the lady has been strictly moral, and the purpose of the play is to decide which of these two lovers she shall marry...
Died. Don Miguel, Duke of Braganca, 75, pretender to the crown of Portugal, father-in-law of the onetime Miss Anita Stewart,* daughter of rich William Rhinelander Stewart of New York, at Chateau Seebenstein near Vienna...
Wilhelm II, onetime German Emperor, received in his chateau at Doom, Holland, a correspondent of the Dagens Nyheder, Copenhagen newspaper. The onetime Kaiser, now a grey-bearded old man, has seemingly lost none of his arrogance, none of his pomposity, none of his commanding dogmatism; for, complaining, he said to the Danish newspaperman: "I could show the road to peace, but the world prefers regarding me as a scapegoat to consulting me as an adviser...