Word: chateauful
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...beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet curtains, he devotes himself to lamenting the vanished glories of his ancestral chateau...
...richest men in Europe, his fortune being estimated at $100,000,000, but it is probably a good deal more than that. Although he was born in Alexandria of Greek and Russian parentage, he is a French citizen, living for a good part of each year in a magnificent chateau outside Paris. His French citizenship, however, does not deter him from accepting and using a British title. His apparent business is Continental sales agent for Vickers and other large munitions factories in Britain; beneath and beyond this no man knows the limit of his influence. He is also a great...
Francesco Nitti sat in the historic halls of the Chateau de Versailles when he was Premier of Italy as the head of the Italian delegation during the whole of the first peace conference that followed the war. He had, therefore, some small part in framing that notorious document known as the Treaty of Versailles, and as a corollary, his book is based mainly upon first hand information. Signor...
...plot is concerned with the cruel villainies of a pair of French Canadians attempting to mulct the poor girl of her rightful inheritance in timber lands. The hero arrives in time to prevent the mulcting. There is a fight which spatters blood all over a perfectly good chateau and a good job in bridge dynamiting. The rest of the action is adequately exciting...
Among the most interesting work is some of Mr. Cowley's. His "Chateau de Soupir" has a dry poetic wit that is delightful; and the successful capturing of atmosphere in his "Mountain Farm" makes it one of the most beautiful poems in the book...