Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
...school, he joined Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in 1901, became its president in 1918, resigned a year ago. Under him Canadian Pacific operated the greatest privately owned track mileage (21,021) in North America, two-ocean fleets (the famed Empresses), a Great Lakes fleet, a string of luxury hotels (Chateau Frontenac), controlled Canada's second-largest mining company, held some 5,000,000 acres of land, ran its own cable and telegraph systems. A lifelong bachelor, Sir Edward was a remarkable double - in face, figure, mannerisms and dress - for England's Admiral Beatty, World War I naval hero...
This admission was made at the time Bedaux's 14th-Century chateau in France was being used for the wedding of the Duke to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. Thereafter Bedaux's fascist tie-up became more evident. It did not involve Windsor except through Bedaux's attempts to convert the former British king, among others, to a new Bedaux system of "economic and social appeasement." This theory thinly disguised Nazi ideology by advocating the intervention of the state in labor controversies and class frictions (i.e., improving the lot of the masses by putting them in their place...
...World War I, an Army hospital could often be set up in a chateau a few miles behind the lines with some expectation of staying there for months. Open, fluid warfare and the development of air combat have changed all that. A hospital close to the lines must now be mobile or it may be lost. It must be inconspicuous or it may be bombed and strafed...
...danced in a costume consisting of a girdle of bananas. She became as glittery a fixture of the Paris theater as Mistinguett and Chevalier, stayed famous and wealthy through the late '20s and '30s, grew to be a legend-a gay darling who lived in a turreted chateau, surrounded herself with monkeys and birds, kept a perfumed pig. walked abroad with two swans on a leash, and fed on rooster combs and champagne. She became a French citizen in 1937 when she married a wealthy young manufacturer and amateur flyer named Jean Lion-her second husband, first white...