Word: marquisate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Le Marquis awaits you," cried the flunkeys at the gates, holding their torches aloft in welcome. The queues of costumed party guests, who had been carefully screened by attendants assigned to bar gatecrashers, filed in. Biarritz' Chiberta Country Club was in ornate fancy dress for the occasion, made up...
...point of fact, Host Cuevas, whose right to a Spanish title seems to be questioned only in Spain, is part Chilean, part Danish. The one thing all his guests knew for sure about him is that he is married to a granddaughter of the late John D. Rockefeller. The marquise, 61, spends most of her time these days lying abed and munching chocolates, leaving her husband the marquis, 68, to his parties, his ballet and his eleven white (unhousebroken) Pekingese...
"You Look Black." All but one of the Pekes were left home last week, but the marquis' ballet dancers were on hand to entertain his guests with a performance of Swan Lake. For a while real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely. To...
A little later-such is the long, slapping arm of coincidence in this novel-the chicken turns out to be Claude, a long-lost childhood sweetheart. Francois first knew Claude Herber and her brother Jean Jacques when they were children and lived in the country together, roaming the woods like...
"England," complained the Marquis di Caraccioli, a discriminating Neapolitan foreign minister in the 18th century, "has more than 60 different religions and only one sauce-melted butter." Other Continental gourmets, to whom the savoring of a delicately shaded sauce is almost a religion in itself, have shared his uncomplimentary views...