Word: cr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell him before the marriage that she needed an expensive operation, and now he wanted an annulment. Gloria argued Wall Streeter Davey's ability to pay: he kept a $100,000-a-year yacht-and one night, she said, when the swank St. Regis Hotel lacked butter for crêpes suzettes he had a half-pound of it brought from home ("War or no war . . . when William Davey wanted crêpes suzette he was going to get them...
...with truffles and morilles, was assured of rations from the British Embassy. And the Germans had not drunk all the vintage wines. From the boulevard Suchet they could go down again to the Côte d'Azur, to long walks in the grounds of their villa La Cröe and basks in the Mediterranean...
...Russian, U.S. and British Quartermaster Corps had worked hard to make the conferees comfortable. U.S. quartermasters were proudest of all of the liquor they had ready for the President to offer his guests: Scotch, gin, bourbon, wines, cognac, even curaçao and crème de menthe...
...named Unterstein whose normal preoccupations are tourists and farming. Today Unterstein is an art center. In a whitewashed building, once a rest center for German railway workers, the American joist Airborne Division has put on display Hermann Goring's fabulous $200,000,000 collection of art works, the crème de la crème of the loot of Europe...
...Mostly at their house in Paris and at La Crôe, their faintly colonial villa on the Riviera...