Word: touquet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silk damask wall coverings and 18th century candelabra, imported eight French croupiers and French-made plastic chips representing $1,500,000 (highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since by English law the house has no legal redress when a gambler's check bounces, Abbecassis was hired mainly for his intimate knowledge of Britain's better-heeled bettors. "These Frenchies." says Holland, "have card-indexed steel filing...
...which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis whisked him from jail to jail for 49 weeks, then released...