Word: chateauful
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...Woodbury, L. I. did the late Otto Hermann Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree. Architects Delano & Aldrich built it for him 22 years ago-a towering, turreted, 100-room French chateau surrounded with gardens, stables, farm buildings, 18-hole golf course, tennis courts, landing field and woodlands on 441 rolling acres. It was conservatively assessed at $1,100,000 and in it Otto Kahn, international banker (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), art and opera patron, lived and entertained lavishly...
...flashlight pictures; 2) make no attempts to influence Their Majesties to watch the birdie. St. Maurice Valley Sportsman Jean Crete and a corps of assistants angled for 450 speckled trout for the Quebec specialty Truite Mouchetee de la Maurice to be served at the Government dinner at the Chateau Frontenac. In Montreal, original seating arrangements for a civic banquet had to be altered and round tables replaced when officials belatedly realized that no one may sit with his back to the King. At the Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along...
Snug in a chateau facing Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, students of Geneva College for Women had a gay time talking French as well as English, dropping in on the League of Nations, making the most of their social opportunities-until the CzechoSlovakian crisis. After Munich, the Misses Burgess and Lux could find only six U. S. girls whose parents would let them go to Geneva. They padded their enrollment with four CzechoSlovakian girls on scholarships, opened the fall term, soon began to hear from the U. S. girls' parents. Each time Adolf Hitler made a speech, the parents...
...first is that from his early days Picasso has hated to let any of his pictures go. "No painting is ever finished" is one of his gloomy sayings, and it is true that his studio and his chateau are jammed full of canvases which he will not sell. Even so, Dealers Rosenberg, et al., have occasionally been so hard put to it to keep from being flooded with Picassos that a wit once suggested, as a solution, a tie-up with the Citroen (Ford of France) Motor Company: "A Picasso with every Citroen...
...universe; softly bulky, grand but graceful human figures that recall such Italian masters as Paolo Veronese; out-and-out Greco-Romanesque figure compositions in various stages of archaism, action and distortion. His production was enormous. At Gisors, about 35 miles from P'aris, he bought a chateau...