Word: chateauful
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...pieces of silver plate which the French Presidents took over from the Bourbons. When the silverware went with the President on state visits to Belgium and Britain, Eudeline journeyed with it; when World War II broke out and the silver was taken for safety to a country chateau, Eudeline went along to guard it. During the German occupation, Hermann Goring laid even heavier burdens on Polisher Eudeline by ordering 100 more place settings, but the steady rhythm of Eudeline's buffing arm never faltered. When he retired recently, not one man, but two, took his place...
...military attache his routine jobs amounted to sending and relaying secret dispatches and advising Kirk on Military Affairs. But he also had a few extra-curricular obligations, one of which was running an old chateau near Louvenciennes. At one point, the chateau's maintenance crew, all member of the French underground, left their jobs to take part in shearing off the locks of the town's women collaborators. Since Admiral Kirk had to get his daily shave, Bundy had to take charge of the chateau's ancient plumbing...
There were other irregularities as well. Once small arms fire suddenly broke out all over the grounds. After investigating, Bundy found that the guards, men relived from front line duty because of battle fatigue, had mistaken the chateau's decorative statues for Nazis and were shooting them full of holes...
...ascent, which was described as one to prove that "man can fly," was scheduled to take place at 1:15 p.m., in celebration of the 'Poon's 75th anniversary. At about 1 p.m. Lampoon men, attired in top hats and Chesterfield coast, gathered in front of "that bastard chateau" with a brass band and began the ceremony...
...Josephine still prefers life in France. A French citizen since 1937, she spent the occupation in North Africa as a lieutenant in the Free French Air Force doing intelligence work, driving an ambulance and, in her spare time, entertaining troops. Off-season nowadays, she lives in a 12th-Century chateau in the Dordogne Valley with her third (and second white) husband, Bandleader Jo Bouillon, her mother, brother and sister, and a whole menagerie of monkeys, dogs, cats and parakeets...