Word: chateauful
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...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...
...involved in personalities, later wrangled privately about each other's bad sportsmanship. But they could make no real, telling points against each other, and they knew it. Labor's friend Van Wagoner ran as "Michigan's War Governor"; War Veteran Kelly (he lost a leg at Chateau-Thierry) ran as "labor's friend...
...rents reduced and stabilized on Oct. 1 in 54 more defense-rental areas scattered across the whole country, bringing under federal rent control areas where a total of 50,000,000 people live. In 53 of these areas rents are cut back to March i levels; in the 54th (Chateau, Okla.) the ceiling is based on the preceding October...
Petain intimates claim that in December 1940 Laval planned a coup d'etat which would have detained Petain in Versailles and shifted the Vichy Government to Paris. At any rate, Laval was arrested and imprisoned in his chateau at Chatel-don (the man who arrested him was Marcel Peyrouton, who last week resigned as Vichy's Ambassador to Argentina). Next day Otto Abetz, the German ruler of Occupied France, sped to Vichy in a huge Mercedes mounting two machine guns, demanded and got Laval's release. Then & there began the German pressuring for Laval's restoration...