Word: chateaus
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...makes it a point to steer his auto-financing business to local rather than California lenders. The Puget Sound National Bank boasts in TV commercials of being the last locally owned bank in the state. TV anchors play to the crowd by deriding Californians for building show-off "French chateaus." And radio station KEZX has been airing a new local folk song, Don't Come to Seattle...
Although he likes the exposure that the Science Center "gallery" provides, a major reason he brings work in is that he has no room for it at home. "I think it was Picasso," he says with a smile, "who bought chateaus to put his work in, when he filled one up he'd buy another. I don't have that kind of money, so I put my work here...
...five were British, which shows a public loyalty to haunts of privilege that Engels might have found hard to explain. The truth is that neither English history nor English culture can be understood without these places; they matter far more as social evidence than most Italian palazzi or French chateaus. The ritual of public visits is not at all new. Some great houses have been open to curious strangers since the day they were built (even the 1st Duke of Marlborough was pestered by tourists in 1711 while building Blenheim...
...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...