Crossword-Solution: GUIGNOL 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Try to amuse one of these beloved adored ones, all puffed up, as they naturally are, by a sense of their importance, with dolls and toys and Punch-and-Judys, as in the days of our unsophisticated innocence! Nonsense! Boys must have ponies and cigarettes, and the reading of novelettes; and girls, the delight of playing hostess, giving afternoon dances, and evening parties at which the real Guignol of the Champs Elysees and Robert Houdin appear,--the entertainment being announced on the invitation cards.

Catherine kept this vast Guignol Theatre open for nearly half a century, not as a Russian, but as a highly domesticated German lady whose household routine was not at all so unlike that of Queen Victoria as might be expected from the difference in their notions of propriety in sexual relations.

The object through which the suspense is conveyed to the reader is the telephone, employed with such tragic effect at the Grand Guignol.

You irritate me too much: I have had enough of it!” And she ran off, sobbing, into the little _guignol_, where she had an attack of hysteria.

Two fingers touching the visor of his cap: "But certainly, monsieur!" "Oh, all right!" Lanyard grumbled resignedly; and tossing the man a five-franc piece, applied his knuckles to the door of an outwardly commonplace hôtel particulier in the rue Chaptal between the impasse of the Grand Guignol and the rue Pigalle.