Word: fingerbowl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Austrian castle of theirs that Edward VIII went after abdicating; and it was upon the Rothschild fortune that the incoming Nazis trained a covetous eye. With steel-helmeted SS men, pistols drawn, two yards from his table. Baron Louis ate lunch amid footmen and sauces, used the fingerbowl after fruit, enjoyed his cigarette, took his heart medicine, approved the next day's menu, and went into custody. When they invaded France the Nazis looted 4,000 "major art items'' from various Rothschild mansions. When reassembled after World War II, the collection required a "committee of Rothschild butlers...
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