Word: teau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often-lagging pace they have pried into every nook & cranny of Emma's avid, neurotic soul and the drab existence that nourished it. The handling of bumbling peasants and pompous tradesmen has an acid authority. One memorable scene-a whirling, overheated ball at a local château-is a wonderfully skillful projection of Emma's half-swooning sense of her own seductiveness...
...Paris everybody knows the Château de la Muette as a mansion of the De Rothschilds. Last week the men who now govern Europe's finances sat in the same gilt & cream chamber where the De Rothschilds once practiced their financial wizardry.* Delegates from 19 OEEC areas had come to La Muette to work out a new Intra-European Payments plan. After hours of futile argument, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak suggested that the meeting adjourn. Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps cut him short with a crisp insistence. "Gentlemen, I have to go back to England...
...clock in the Cháteau de la Muette struck 12, Cripps was still droning on, and the old payments scheme had expired. No new agreement had been reached...
...Liberals used the House opening as an occasion for a nationwide party rally. Twenty delegates from each of the nine provinces crowded into Ottawa's Château Laurier for an executive meeting of the National Liberal Federation. Before them, Leader St. Laurent shook off some of his reserve. "Our opponents will huff and they will puff," he said, "but . . . they will not blow this country off the course which our party and its leaders have...
...centuries, the French city of Limoges was split wide open. The Château was ruled by the viscount, the Cité dominated by the bishop, and both camps were rent by war, pestilence, and famine. Yet even in the time of its greatest troubles, Limoges kept producing enamelwork that was the envy of Christendom...