Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saint-Denis and Belleville, where they took up positions around the huge gas tanks, water reservoirs and electric plants which supply the capital. Bands of Mobile Guards and policemen began to patrol the Paris streets. An infantry company clumped to the City Hall, nine truckloads of troops surrounded the Chamber of Deputies building. Other patrols stacked arms on important street corners and public squares. The authority of the Premier of France to govern by decree power granted him by Parliament was about to be disputed in a 24-hour general strike called by the French Confederation of Labor. The Republic...
Benito Mussolini strode pompously into the Italian Chamber and sat down with folded arms last week. Il Duce did not, however, assume his celebrated frown, for this was going to be fun, and he was being carefully watched through a monocle by the French Ambassador, extremely potent M. Andre Frangois-Poncet, today the No. 1 Continental diplomat...
...elegant, bemonocled French Ambassador feigned not to understand what was meant in the Chamber when all the Deputies without exception jumped to their feet and, encouraged by two eminent Fascist scream-leaders, screamed in frenzied Italian unison : "Tunisia! Tunisia...
...hubbub was now indescribable, for in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies women were screaming not only "TUN-E-E-E-SIA!!!" (the Deputies screamed nothing else), but also the names of three other French places: "Corsica!" "Nice!" "Savoy...
Music form a harpsichord, viola da gamba, and recorder flute will fill the Germanic Museum on Thursday evening when the Cologne Chamber Music Trio is scheduled to play...