Word: chateauful
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...Gade. is U. S. Naval attache in Brussels, his grandson, Gerhard, U. S. Second Secretary at Quito. Another son, F. Herman Gade (John's brother, Gerhard's father), used to be Norwegian Consul at Chicago and mayor of Lake Forest, Ill., is now chatelain of the Chateau du Mesnil-St. Denis near Paris. Last week Chatelain F. Herman Gade had trouble with a tenant...
...phrase, "a Venus de Milo with arms." Fifteen years later she was hobnobbing with Edward VII at Marienbad. Twenty years later, divorced from many-wived Actor Nat Goodwin, she was entertaining all England in her country house near London. After the war she built a $350,000 chateau at Juan-les-Pins, there entertained all Europe...
...reciprocate the honors bestowed by King George VI when he visited the front before Christmas, France's Generalissimo Maurice Gamelin rode his special train to the town where Great Britain's General the Viscount Gort has his chateau-headquarters. With crack detachments of the Welsh Guards and 8th French Zouaves looking on, the bantam Generalissimo stood on tiptoe, lifted his stubby grey mustache and brushed it brusquely against both cheeks of: 1) towering General Sir Edmund Ironside, Britain's Chief of Imperial General Staff; 2) more reachable Lord Gort. In the name of President Lebrun he pinned...
WASHINGTON--Major General Omar Bundy, retired, who commanded the second division of the American Expeditionary Forces in the World War and contributed to halting the German offensive before Chateau Thierry, died at his home today...
...Majesty in a village restaurant. In deference to them he went without his usual midday Scotch & splash, drank wine with the meal (oysters, roast chicken, potatoes, peas, duck pâté, salad, ices, fruit). Another day he lunched in a corporals' mess room, another in a chateau used by Napoleon before, and by Wellington after, Waterloo. The King's comment to an artillery officer was quoted as his cheering verdict to all ranks: "As long as we keep on the way we are going now, we won't need to worry about the outcome...