Word: gotha
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Christmas Every Day. Elsa entertained kings and queens, broke bread with half the British Cabinet, got on first-name terms with most of the Almanack de Gotha. But she refused to meet Mussolini, and her telegraphed reply to an invitation to dine with Farouk I of Egypt went straight to the point: "I do not associate with clowns, monkeys or corrupt gangsters." Every now and then the plain, plump little girl from Keokuk speaks up: "I like pretty girls, too, at parties; they're cheaper and more decorative than flowers." Elsa insists that all her partying was done just...
...more important than Who's Who in the eyes of many blue-blood Britons is the deeper question : Who was who? For years, the responsibility of cataloguing the ancestors of noble families in Europe and Great Britain was shared by Saxony's famed Almanack de Gotha and Britain's Burke's Peerage.* Of the two, the Almanack was the older and more conscientious, but in 1946, the unfeeling Red army marched into Saxony and put it out of business for good, though carefully carting its presses and files off to Moscow. The burden of keeping Britain...
...Count's. The new host was dapper millionaire Don Carlos de Beistegui y Iturbi, a mysterious bachelor often called "The Count of Monte Cristo" by romantic gossipists. Months before the party, the international smart set whispered excitedly that the guest list would read like the Almanach de Gotha. To be invited to Don Carlos' shindig became a distinction fervently desired by the gilded socialites of the continents. Black markets sprang up in most of the world's fashionable capitals offering cards to the ball for as much as $500 each. Jacques Path, Dior and Valentina were busy...
...names of the damaged towns sounded like an Almanack de Gotha of winter sports. Zermatt, Arosa and St. Moritz were cut off. Houses were buried on the outskirts of Andermatt. Some 500 British and 70 American tourists suffered a sybaritic exile, stranded in the luxury hotels of Davos. In central Switzerland the 4,100-ft. high village of Vals was crushed by a torrent of snow, rock and snapped timber. A small hotel at Oberalpsee was completely buried...
Outside the chamber, one politician even ungallantly attacked the King's wife. Punning on the fact that during the war Leopold resumed the old German family title of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the speaker referred to pretty Mary Liliane as the "Princess of Sexe Coburg Gotha...