Word: souper
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...hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip in the thickest pea-souper...
...prim Adam houses parades the world of fashion; Guardsmen wear tight breeches; George IV is Regent. Paul's plan is to marry off his Melanie (small, saucy Yvonne Printemps) to a highborn tripper, thereby assuring himself a pension. The Regent himself asks Melanie to a souper à deux. The choleric Earl of Harringford offers her protection and a house just off Belgrave Square. His son. the Marquis of Sheere, also falls under Melanie's spell. Both Earl and Regent want something "a little less binding" than marriage. All of this makes little difference to Melanie, for it turns...
...reports of Her Majesty's voyage or reception but accounts of her reconciliation just before she left Paris with her eldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). On the night before her departure Queen Marie secretly welcomed Carol to a family souper intime in her suite at the Ritz Hotel, Paris. Next morning Carol before scores of clicking cameras, and saw glistening a queenly tear. Premature reports that former Premier Bratiano was hurrying to Paris and would there deliver to Carol documents restoring him to crown princehood were scotched by Queen Marie...
Butterfield knew nothing of these things. What did he know again of a "petit souper de garcon," the poetry of such an occasion had never touched...