Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some miles out of town like his own "Woodley" in Washington. Last week, having taken Mrs. Stimson to Europe on the svelte, palatial Ile de France, and brought her to Paris on a private railway car, he set her up three miles from Geneva as the Chatelaine of the Chateau de Bessinge...
General Condescu said that to save money it might be necessary to install Prince Nicholas and his new commoner bride in the chateau at Belleme where Mistress Lupescu used to live. She is now believed to be in Bucharest with the King, though her presence the Rumanian Government half-heartedly denies...
...with Charmerace but falls in love with him. This causes Lionel Barrymore to grunt, rub his chin with one hand, make his eyes pop. It does not prevent Arsene Lupin from helping himself to bonds, jewels and expensive pictures. Presently Lupin's signed depredations occur at the suburban chateau of one Gourney-Martin, where Charmerace also happens to be staying. After this he steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, a misdemeanor which causes his identity to be revealed...
Near Fontainebleau, France, onetime King Alfonso XIII of Spain saw a chateau for sale at $800,000, opened negotiations for it with an offer...
...making them loans of money . . . without interest." Initiation fee was $2, annual dues $2. More recently they have published the R. F. A. News, an eight-page quarterly which runs gossip on Rockefellers; family genealogy and such information as: "This name [Rockefeller] was chosen after the name of their chateau [at Creyssels, France], which was called Roca-folio. . . . The greater part . . . of the rocks of Creyssels . . . were found to be of petrified leaves." Many issues of the News carry articles about the Rockefeller Foundation, John Davison's educational stimulant. To the Family Association's educational fund John Davison...