Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Putti, the small luscious lady with the heart-shaped mouth who played opposite Emil Jannings in Variety, is as complete a success on the comedy stage as she was in the silent cinema. But this would be untrue. The scene of Made In France is laid in a chateau which a group of Americans have rented and in which the husband and suitors of the two ladies in the party were billeted during the War. One gathers that the gentlemen were active back-area cutups for when Miss De Putti makes her appearance she accuses each of them...
Colyumist Gibbons, 43, younger-looking, bulky, flat-nosed, wears a white linen patch over his left-eye socket. The eye was shot out by a machine gun at Chateau-Thierry. When he broadcasts he rushes into the studio at the last minute, tosses his coat aside, keeps his hat on, sits down at a table with cigaret in hand and rattles off 217 words per minute...
Shortly after this convention a group of veterans of a Regular Army division all of whom saw service at the front as early as Chateau- Thierry, met in the Parker House, Boston, to organize a society. The meeting was a tremendous contrast to the Legion affair. Sixty were present. Many had been wounded in action. None had liquor. The spirit was remarkably matured thought, striking dignity, and intense respectability. Most were not Legionaries. Some were successful businessmen; others more humble; but each maintained the same dignity, the same matured and respectable attitude. It was an inspiration and a contrast...
...Buick to Brooklyn and find one Fred Witcher who would help him dispose of it. They were to split $50 for the job. After obtaining the blocks, he had spent his $25 on drink. Police traced the car to its owner, Proprietor Harry Western (sometimes called Weston) of the Chateau roadhouse on Lake Katrine, near Kingston, N. Y. and found Western had been missing from the establishment since two nights before...
...Diamond-Capone war the most credible was that the Midwest roadhouse beer trade, lately an unchallenged Capone concession, had been encroached upon by Diamond's trucks, that Capone wanted to force his rival back to Brooklyn, intended no Brooklyn attack. Mrs. Mae Western, worried wife of the missing Chateau proprietor, told police of a new, mysterious Diamond beer-running combination from which her husband, onetime intimate of the leader, had been excluded...