Word: hauteness
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...treasures. Last fall, before Strasbourg and its vicinity had been cleared of corpses and ruins. Captain Ross found the hiding place of one of the world's greatest medieval paintings, the Isenheim Altar Screen by Matthias Grünewald. The treasure was stored in a vaulted room in Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle, near Colmar, Alsace, 40 miles from Strasbourg...
...wear, topped only by Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue. Magnin's is still the largest buyer in the high-priced wholesale dress market (Saks makes much of its fine apparel in its own workshop) and has long had exclusive West Coast rights to that market's haut monde...
Exquisite Lucius Beebe, recording the rarefied doings of the haut monde in his syndicated 'column, This New York, reported: "The greatest wartime grief of the town's exquisites is not the curtailment of moderate essentials of living like food and transport, but the complete disappearance from circulation of Floris's mouthwash, formerly imported from England! . . . There isn't a flagon of this choosy smell left on any chemist's shelf in town...
...degree from Oxford University, England. Justice Roberts headed for his Pennsylvania farm; Justice Black for a rented house at Seminary, Va.; Justice Butler for an honorary degree from Boston College, then his farm at Woodbine, Md.; Justice Stone for his 45th class reunion at Amherst, then for Isle au Haut...
Meanwhile, Belgian prospectors had discovered veins of pitchblende in the Belgian Congo no less than 20 times richer than the U. S. carnotite. After the War, Belgium's Union Minière du Haut Katanga started mining this material, shipping it to the mother country for refining. The U. S. with its low-grade carnotite could not compete and soon dropped out of the world picture. The Belgian company enjoyed what amounted to a monopoly, producing just enough to fill the demand at its arbitrarily maintained price of $70,000 per gram. Since the medicinal uses of the element...