Word: tilsitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bitterly hurt, Louise retreated to Paris, where John Mackay bought her a mansion on the Rue de Tilsitt that was ''like the Palace Hotel, only on a smaller scale." She was quick to see that to Europeans it was completely unimportant that she had been snubbed in Manhattan. London and Paris expected lavish entertainment from Americans, not lineage. For two decades Louise Mackay supplied the entertainment. Her parties had a Babylonian magnificence, from "eighteen footmen on the stairs to the bowls of out-of-season violets in the blue salon." Her guests included the British royal family...
...moves competently from the mining disasters in the Comstock to the horrors of fire that time and again leveled the ramshackle towns of the West. In contrast there are the glittering balls in London's Marlborough House, yachting at Cowes and the stately bacchanals of the Rue de Tilsitt. It was a time when men grabbed for the main chance, when the difference between obscurity and unfathomable wealth could simply be the lucky stroke of a pickax. If John or Louise Mackay had a thought beyond material success, the book does not suggest it. They knew what they wanted...
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