Word: chateauful
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...pass the course he must spend his first five weekends at places selected from the following list: Versailles, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Saint-Denis, Sevres, Troyes, Amiens, Chartres, the battlefields, Rouen. At the close of the "session," he will travel, in company with his fellow aspirants, for four days through the chateau district of Touraine along the Loire. Then, if he passes an examination, he will receive a credit toward his degree. This way of absorbing historical, architectural and decorative studies has never been generally practiced. There are difficulties
Just 100 years ago a babe with an enormous head and wide, staring eyes was born at the Chateau de Blowitz, near Pilsen, Bohemia. Half a century later one Henri Stephan de Blowitz, jack of all trades, paunchy ne'er-do-well, sought the Paris office of the famed London Times and audaciously asked for a job, although he admitted that he had never written a line of news in all his wastrel life...
Hanford MacNider is 36. He is a banker, a soldier, a Harvard graduate. He hails from Mason City, Iowa, where he was born, and worked in a bank until he went to war. He served in the A. E. F. from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant Colonel, at Chateau Thierry and Soissons, and after the War went back to Mason City and banking. His "buddies" (comrades) elevated him to State Commander of the American Legion, then to National Commander, because he had their welfare at heart...
...Harvard men wishing to attend the Theatrical Ball, to be given by the "Miracle" company on November 24 at the Chateau, next door to the Boston Opera House may leave orders for their tickets with H. H. MacCullen at Holworthy S. No orders will be taken after tomorrow...
...action takes place at the present time at the country Chateau de Longueval and in the house of the neighboring priest. The plot is woych around the love affair between the priest's godson, Jean Reynaud, a young French officer, and Miss Bettina Percival, an American whose sister has bought the Chateau...