Word: chateauful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military attache his routine jobs amounted to sending and relaying secret dispatches and advising Kirk on Military Affairs. But he also had a few extra-curricular obligations, one of which was running an old chateau near Louvenciennes. At one point, the chateau's maintenance crew, all member of the French underground, left their jobs to take part in shearing off the locks of the town's women collaborators. Since Admiral Kirk had to get his daily shave, Bundy had to take charge of the chateau's ancient plumbing...
...ascent, which was described as one to prove that "man can fly," was scheduled to take place at 1:15 p.m., in celebration of the 'Poon's 75th anniversary. At about 1 p.m. Lampoon men, attired in top hats and Chesterfield coast, gathered in front of "that bastard chateau" with a brass band and began the ceremony...
...Josephine still prefers life in France. A French citizen since 1937, she spent the occupation in North Africa as a lieutenant in the Free French Air Force doing intelligence work, driving an ambulance and, in her spare time, entertaining troops. Off-season nowadays, she lives in a 12th-Century chateau in the Dordogne Valley with her third (and second white) husband, Bandleader Jo Bouillon, her mother, brother and sister, and a whole menagerie of monkeys, dogs, cats and parakeets...
Ring Round the Moon (translated from the French of Jean Anouilh by Christopher Fry; produced by Gilbert Miller) is as French as a duel in the Bois, and as airy and evanescent as skywriting. A "charade with music," it assembles a fashionable group for a ball at a chateau where not only the guests, but their words, their wit, their desires, their very frustrations are expected to dance. With its adroit Christopher Fry translation, evocative Poulenc music, elegant Dufy curtain scrawls, charming 1912 Castillo costumes, Ring Round the Moon comes in the most inviting of envelopes-which proves a little...
...believe that even Harry Truman could say such things-and in writing-could think of nothing to do at the moment but cluck, "Shocking" . . . "Unfortunate." Iowa's Hickenlooper, when he got his breath, declaimed: "I know that the spirits of heroes from the Halls of Montezuma, from Chateau-Thierry and Tarawa . . . will be aroused...