Word: chateauful
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...Visitors to Asheville in past years," wrote a North Carolina correspondent last week, "have been permitted to view Biltmore House from a distance. Through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. John Francis Amherst Cecil . . . tourists will this year be privileged to pass through the huge rooms of the beautiful chateau...
Avenue with palaces, considered that the proper kind of a house to build in Asheville, N. C., was an exact replica of a Renaissance French chateau...
...sacred coconut was blessed in India by the Hindu Primate, then carried by a Pundit to the Chateau Holkar on the outskirts of Paris, where it was broken and the virgin milk allowed to splash upon the naked girl-babe, who was christened Princess Sharada Raje Holkar, amid pious shouts of "Om! Shantih! Shantih"!! Shantih!!! "Oh! Peace! Peace!! Peace...
...Voice did not answer, and on the Democratic side, foxy little Field Marshal Simmons began massing his troops behind the Borah irregulars to capture perhaps not only Flexible Tariff Ridge but some of the industrial salients-Chateau de Steel, Fort Cement, Brickopolis, Woolensville, perhaps even Manufacturing City...
...chickens, of course, were more his wife's affair than his, but they reflected credit on him - an entirely new species of chickens, called the "red and white," which Poland has adopted as its "national breed'' as a way of paying him a compliment. His chateau, four stories high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy...