Word: chateauful
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...cast weaves its way through the messy plot principally against a background of a Roumanian chateau, solidly built, attributable only to the architectural school which conceived Steuben's Rathskeller. Singing with irrelevant gestures, fullface always to the audience, the players in "The Moon Rises" are forced to be more aggressively charming than most musical comedy actors because every line given them, must, to survive, be punctuated with a sweeping gesture, or a flashing smile...
...Washington; by Mrs. Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, only daughter of the late George Washington Vanderbilt; in Paris. By her father's will which left her approximately $50,000,000. Mrs. Cecil was required to live at least six months of the year at "Biltmore House," the huge French Renaissance chateau he built near Asheville, N. C. Her marriage, ten years ago this month, was an international occasion. Following it, Mr. Cecil gave up his diplomatic career, became manager of his wife's estate...
...meagre sum of three to its credit. Scared away by the cost of Champagne, students have only made two purchases of the "Nectar of the Gods," in the two months since repeal. Port and Sherry head the list of wines and in the Champagne division "Heldsick" and "Chateau Rheims" divide the two points...
...started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...
...October 1926 someone with a very long ladder broke into the State-owned Chateau of Chantilly, and stole the famous Grand Condé Rose diamond that Louis XIV had given the due d'Enghien after the latter's victory over the Spanish Army at Rocroy in 1643. Chiappe took charge of the investigation but had little luck until a chambermaid named Suzanne Schlitz felt hungry in a cheap hotel on the Boulevard de Strasbourg. She bit into an apple lying on a table and broke her tooth on the Grand Conde. Within a few days Jean Chiappe...