Word: atop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could get only some 14 francs for the dollar. Last spring the franc began to slip badly again. Last week the American Express Co., at Paris, was paying out approximately? 28 francs for the dollars which its clients smilingly proffered. In Les Nights Clubs Americains, atop Montmartre, the good-old-bad-old times had come again?though indeed the quarts of champagne in that vicinity were being held at 100 francs...
Late in the week the Chamber again rang with Fascist cheers. Time after time the deputies rose to their feet, stamped, exulted, wept. "Evviva Italia!" they bellowed, "Evviva Fascismo! E v v i v a ! Evviva!! Evviva MUSSOLINI!!!" High atop the Tribune, the Duce of Fascismo flayed the efforts of pan-German propagandists to hinder his Italianization of the pre-War Alto Adige, or South-Austrian Tyrol, which was ceded to Italy at the Peace Conference...
...Atop the Hohenzollern chateau at Doorn, the imperial standard flaunted all day. The Lord Chamberlain (TIME, Nov. 30) was kept busy welcoming Dutch and German notables, who motored up to the estate with baskets of flowers and were either pressed to remain or turned away after being allowed to sign the "Complimentary Register" kept at the entrance to the lodge...
...extreme Left of the Reichstag the Communists groaned; at the extreme Right the Ludendorff Voelkische Deputies stamped and hissed. Atop the Tribune, Chancellor Luther stubbornly defended his newly created "Little Coalition Government" (TIME...
...attending Queen Alexandra's funeral. He is concealing his presence in London rather cleverly, and had tea in secret with his sister, the Princess Ileana, who is at school near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden; and he is expected to arrive shortly at Bucharest, in order to retract his rash step, which he now bitterly regrets...