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Word: chateau (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faced with the improbable task of snaring a rogue whose nastiest proclivity is for turning his enemies into statues. This rogue (Gregory Ratoff) abducts a happy and prosperous flower girl (Gwili André), murders her aged father and plants evidence to incriminate her pickpocket lover. Then, in his shadowy chateau, he sets about hypnotizing her into a counterfeit princess, since he needs one for dishonest purposes. The prefect of police (Frank Morgan) is clever. He sets the pickpocket free with instructions to solve the mystery. The pickpocket not only does so but he filches so successfully in and about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat him out of the family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts to interfere, he gives orders for workmen to tear down his chateau, remodel it to suit his whims. He walks through his woods dressed in a smock painted to look like leaves, puts a green napkin over his head, sits down on a stone to make friends with the lizards. The efforts of William Colombe's children to control the follies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Age | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

They pictured British Secretary for War Minister Viscount Hailsham pacing up & down his suite in the Hotel Chateau Laurier when his baggage failed to arrive. They imagined him exclaiming, "My Kingdom for a frockcoat and topper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Little Bird Told Me. . . . | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Last week the new white marble Temple was completed at Louveciennes, not far from a chateau once occupied by comparatively chaste King Louis XVI. Plans were announced to place the remains of Marshal Joffre in his Temple of Love this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Joffre's Bones | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Inside the Chateau de Bessinge self-styled "Delegate" Stimson made himself at home in Louis XVI salons set out with slightly rusty suits of armor suggesting a museum. All the Louis XVI furniture, according to a spokesman for the Swiss real estate agent who leased the Chateau de Bessinge is upholstered in genuine Gobelin tapestry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stimson Musee | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

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