Word: talleyrand
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...Bois de Boulogne station the Bey was met by General Charles de Gaulle and whisked through flag-decked streets toward the Hotel Talleyrand, to freshen up for the ceremonies, which included the presentation by the Bey to the General of a silver bathtub...
...Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime (40 years) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants-more than 5,000, valued at about $75,000-for the benefit of the Red Cross. In giving up the collection, which blooms in a two-block-long greenhouse on the Gould estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Duchess will save some 75 tons of coal for spring heating, can free nine gardeners for other work...
Cannibal War. In 1835 Don Carlos led a Spanish revolt, and Europe's powers were soon eager to take a hand. Under "the sacred principle" of nonintervention, the French soon intervened. (Nonintervention, said Talleyrand, is "a metaphysical and political term meaning about the same as intervention.") Chief of staff to the commander of France's international brigade was Legionnaire Bazaine. In campaigns which the British minister called "this cannibal war, these two-and-a-half years of lese humanite" Bazaine helped defeat reactionary Don Carlos and save Spain for Queen Isabella. When he led the French...
Like most of the events in Stark Young's life, this one was a shooting of the most fashionable rapids. He opened the proceedings with a lecture to 53 lady friends of Greece and art, including the Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Countess di Zoppola, Countess Mercati. Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt and a clutch of male critics and writers...
...Duchesse de Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, daughter of the late Financier Jay Gould, made one of the buildings on her estate in Tarrytown, N.Y. a guesthouse for sailors on leave. The Navy announced that the chosen sailors "lounge on luxurious chairs, eat off an old Italian table brought from a monastery, walk on Oriental rugs, store their clothes in huge old French armoires. ... A butler, cook, housekeeper and other servants cater to every wish. . . . Meals are served at every hour...