Word: teau
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...Damn my own left-wing compulsions," said Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, 65 (Main Street, Babbitt, Dodsworth), to the New York Times at his cháteau in Florence, Italy. "I'm always trying to tie ribbons on lampposts ... I don't know what to do about anything. I'm not a reformer. I really don't care...
...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...