Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back at their bomb-nicked Cap d'Antibes chateau, royally entertained a group of U.S. reporters on an Air France publicity junket. Bubbled the New York Herald Tribune's food editor, Clementine Paddle-ford: "Two ice-filled silver buckets . . . sandwiches, one-bite big . . . again and again came the silver trays with fresh glasses of the bubbling champagne...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner. (He ate cold salmon, vegetables, fruit.) Then he rose before a microphone to talk about food. At President Truman's request, Herbert Hoover had travelled 50,000 miles through 38 countries. Few men except the starving themselves knew so much about food-and famine...
Across the Border. At a luncheon in the green & gold ballroom of the Chateau Laurier, Ike put on his shell-rimmed glasses and spoke warmly of Canadian-American relations. He told how 12,000 Americans had joined the Canadian forces during the war, how 26,000 men of Canadian birth had served with the U.S. forces, how they trained in each other's schools. Cheers shook the windows as he made an eloquent, earnest plea for cooperation to keep the peace for the sake of "white crosses, standing in regimented clusters throughout a thousand leagues of foreign soil...
...parlor upstairs, Sime's thirsty intimates could get a drink or close a big deal in Volstead days. Today, beside its faded sofa, ancient radio with morning-glory horn, and murals of Charlestoning showgirls, stands a television set. Over the entrance is a neon sign (reading Chateau de L'ayem), a gift to Sime from Protégé Jimmy Durante...
General George S. Patton Jr. became the second American in history (first: General John J. Pershing) to be made an honorary citizen of Verdun. He was also made an honorary citizen of Metz, Reims, Chateau Thierry, Epernay, Toul, Sarreguemines, and the city of Luxembourg...