Word: marrone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Havilland, 38, two-time Oscar-winning cinemactress (To Each His Own, The Heiress); and Pierre Galante, 45, writer for the French picture magazine Paris-Match; she for the second time (her first: Marcus Aurelius Goodrich, one-shot author of the novel Delilah), he for the first; in Ivoy-le-Marron, France...
...shook 2,000 hands at the Greek ambassador's reception, then hurried on to Secretary Dulles' official dinner. Queen Frederika, wearing a cream satin gown, a diamond coronet and the Greek army's Cross of Bravery, bravely tackled the lobster thermidor, roast pheasant, Smithfield ham mousse, marron bombe on nests of spun sugar and three wines. Next morning Their Majesties were up early for a whirlwind tour of the Naval Academy at Annapolis...
...Marron, which also makes an annual football appearance, comes into Cambridge with a veteran team and a decisive 7 to 4 victory over a strong Yale team. Both the Yalies and the Gymnasts went South. The Crimson didn...
...Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl named Marie Chevalier as their cook. A native genius, Marie could whip up sauces creamy as clouds and subtle as sunsets; she could pluck a plum tart from the oven at the split second of proper crispness or mash a marron to the delicacy of morning dew. "She civilized me," sighs Curnonsky, repeating an old quip: "She turned my needs into pleasures...