Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taster was more valued than a chief-of-staff. Tacitus, indeed, tells of empire-shaking deeds when the taster succumbed to the lure of Tammany tactics, and Montaigne accounts it the greatest of compliments that Henry IV of France dispensed with his taster when visiting at the essayist's chateau. But Montaigne was a humanist, and had not reduced his kitchen to a system of boilers, pulleys, chafing dishes and steam baths...
Will blast us yet at Chateau-Thierry...
...discovery seemed too pat to be believed. After Napoleon's fall Caulaincourt lived in retirement, was stung to reply when rivals published memoirs that discredited him. His family withheld his exposures, fearing libel, until 1914. During the German invasion the manuscript was walled up in the Caulaincourt Chateau, lost when the chateau was blown up, found in 1933 when a garbled copy of the original was already going to press. Readers whose suspicions are awakened by such remarkable coincidences may be made more doubtful by the narrative speed and fluency of the memoirs, the dialogs which read like passages...
...first dance in Paris "Mile." Baker wore feathers on her rump, bananas dangling from her belt, nothing else. Parisians were raving overnight about her lithe bronze body, her wild sense of rhythm. Soon she was able to conduct her own night club, buy a chateau, a bed which was supposed to have belonged to Marie Antoinette. To be near her collection of birds and monkeys she had cages built in the house. She ate fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans...
Last week Dr. Carrel was, as usual, vacationing in a chateau near Lyons in his native France. And, as usual, what the Press wanted to hear him talk about was his famed assistant at the Institute. The small, bald, 62-year-old scientist duly obliged: "Lindbergh is considered . . . exclusively as a flyer . . . but he is much more than that. He is a great savant. Men who achieve such things are capable of accomplishments in all domains...