Word: frontenac
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...Lihme pantry yielded cakes. The Lihme icebox yielded a clove-fretted sugar ham-and bottles marked "Frontenac Export Ale." Mr. Healy and friends disposed themselves on antique gilt chairs in the Lihme dining-room and gnawed the ham without benefit of cutlery. When ale had washed down ham, one of them flung the ham bone through the glass panel of the pantry door. The bone lodged amid the china on a pantry shelf and Mr. Healy, feeling exceedingly "good," started jumping up and down in the dining-room, swinging his arms, shouting drunkenly...
...convention made no decisions of far-reaching import. The members, most of them in their 30's, many of them sober, listening to the convention speeches at the Chateau Frontenac, heard...
Amid general pomp, masculine gold braid, feminine fine raiment, the new Governor General took the oath of office in the Legislative Council of Quebec. Later he lunched at the Chateau Frontenac, famed hotel. Still later, a special train sped the Governor General and his entourage to Ottawa...
...America, are lavish and alive. The hero, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, might or might not recognize himself in the completely noble explorer here exhibited. He might be embarrassed by his courage, amused by his asceticism, surprised by the glossy perfection of his friends and enemies-Frontenac, Tonty, Mmes. de Montespan and de Maintenon, Joliet, Marquette, de Laval and the rest. But he would appreciate that, romancing apart, a full historical record of his efforts to build a Mississippi kingdom for France was what the author patiently sought, thoroughly contrived...
Lord Renfrew (a title often used by his grandfather, King Edward VII) stayed at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec for one day. In the afternoon he played golf in his TutankhAmen pullover sweater with the Hon. Martin Burrell and Sir Godfrey Thomas. In the evening he determined to "take it easy" but the strain of Yes, We Have No Bananas was too much for him. He marched to the ballroom and had fun with the flappers. Next day he left for his ranch...