Word: chateaus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there had not been so many, many operettas like this one in the past months, it is quite conceivable that "Countess Maritza" might be called a hit. It may be one anyhow. But somehow the fad for gypsies and Hungarian chateaus has passed...
...have witnessed it. Elevators originally described as "scaling the building and laden with cargoes of students" slow their flight until it is only with agony that they manage to creep to their destinations. And there are times when they cease motion entirely leaving the inhabitants of these imposing chateaus the privilege either of walking up the dingy, tortuous flights or of remaining below stairs. Therefore such lamentations as those from Middlebury are superfluous--for it is written that every two stories of grandiloquent brick mean two of painful laboring, upward and onward; the flamboyant luxury of "student hotels" usually assume...