Word: chateauful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fontainebleau Schools of Music and Fine Arts hold instruction in English on music, painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, costumes, and scenery designs in the Chateau of Fontainebleau, July through September. Schools in Paris offer numerous language courses for Americans. Different level language schools include the Alliance Francaise, the Institut de Phonetique, specializing in pronunciation, and the Ecole Superieure for French teachers of other countries. Most of the sessions begin in July...
...Clarke of the Gymnasts has not yet produced anything in the 50 or the 100 that will push Chateau Dyer of the Crimson to lower the records he holds in these events. Nor is Andy Shoenheiter a threat to varsity captain Jim Jorgensen...
...were almost legendary figures. He held one of the oldest titles, owned one of the biggest fortunes in France. Like his illustrious forebears, he was a fastidious man of the world, loved to travel, to hunt on his vast estates, to entertain lavishly in his turreted ancestral home, the Chateau de la Verrerie. Dressed in exclusive Dior gowns, his wife was every inch the grande dame, and on occasion, as she accompanied her financier husband on business trips, she helped close many a solid financial deal herself...
...hard-pressed to find quarters for its delegation. Not until the middle of last week did President Eisenhower have a place to lay his head on the summit. Then Mme. André Firmenich, Scottish wife of a Swiss millionaire perfume-maker, consented to rent her 15 room Chateau du Creux de Genthod because "we could hardly refuse to offer it to the President...
...Dark Days. His son, August Busch Sr., took over the presidency, steadily boosted sales even through World War I, when anti-German feeling ran high in the U.S. He built the chateau on his estate to move his children out to the country, where, as Gussie Jr. says, "a kid just couldn't have had more." Friends remember young Gussie as difficult for other children to get along with, recall that he was hot-tempered and impatient with dogs and horses. Says Gussie himself: "Let's just say I was the original Peck...