Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1930 I visited O'Neill and his wife [at] a chateau outside Tours. He had a very beautiful Bugatti racing car which was kept in the peak of condition by a French mechanic. I was . . . pretty horrified by the fact that the car was lubricated with castor oil. O'Neill used to take the car put for a daily spin during which he drove it at very high speeds along the crown of the straight French roads. That was the Bugatti's only purpose. There was another car for the purpose of transportation...
...Romantic Disguise. He likewise crystallized the facts of life. There were the endless pursuits-sometimes in romantic disguise-of ladies of fashion; once, even, there were three ecstatic days spent hidden in the pitch-black cellar of a chateau, while the loved one (whose husband had come home unexpectedly) periodically lowered food, a chamber pot, and herself on the end of a rope...
Youthful, maidenly Chantal lives in a French chateau whose Second Empire shrubberies and wide, tawny avenues are described by Bernanos with vivid feeling. With her live her timid, pedantic father (who has written volumes of history but cannot stir a step without the counsel of his psychiatrist) and her psychotic grandmother (who still clutches to her bosom the keys of storage cupboards that have long ceased to exist). Of such as them, Chantal says simply: "What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline toward sadness and turn instinctively toward...
Bernanos is trying to explore states of mind too private to be communicable. Few novelists could give flesh and blood to such a clutter of spiritual skeletons as inhabit the De Clergerie chateau; even fewer could use a teen-age girl as the symbol for an exalted faith without making her too good to be true. Joy is fair evidence of why Novelist Bernanos has never influenced many and yet has vigorously influenced...
Gloria Vanderbilt, three months after Daughter Gloria cut off her $21,000 a year competence (TIME, March 25), carried out her threat to open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue...