Word: chateauful
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...bitterly opposed by conservative coffee and sugar planters, soon brought on a disastrous economic crisis. Crops rotted in the fields as freed slaves abandoned the fazendas. Within a year the crowded cities faced famine, and the army deposed the royal family. Princess Isabel died at her husband's chateau in France...
...best when it gets its leading lady into the water. Fortunately, in this film she is in the water a good deal of the time. Esther has an opportunity to display her aquabatics in an Arkansas swimming hole and in a swimming pool in a French chateau. She also swims the English Channel with the encouragement of a French champagne salesman (Fernando Lamas), who helpfully dives into the water from his yacht and paces her in the last lap. There are some blithe tunes by Arthur Schwartz and Johnny Mercer, and the whole thing has been briskly staged by Charles...
...Chateau de la Muette, onetime Parisian home of the Rothschilds and now, appropriately enough, the counting-house of Europe, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler gave his Continental colleagues the best financial news this year. Britain, he said, will relax trade restrictions to allow another $90 million worth of imports from Western Europe. British tourists will henceforth be allowed to take abroad ?40 ($112) apiece instead of the ?25 ($70) permitted before. "The United Kingdom," Butler told his fellow members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, "is determined to play the part...
...with a police-room discussions of former passions but weakens fifteen minutes of the film. Fortunately, after this the action picks up markedly. And except for an overlong comfroom scene, the film is again highly exciting, reaching a splendid crescendo with a chase through the halls of Quebec's Chateau Frontenac...
Mamie Eisenhower, who has kept house in everything from a two-room flat to a French chateau, was undaunted by her new job. After the first few hectic days, the White House was running with the quiet precision of a watchmaker's convention at a Swiss inn. Mamie, already busy with the endless receiving line, had the situation well in hand. Most Washington observers were agreed that if anyone could make the White House a home, Mamie could, and Mamie would...