Word: eiffel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eiffel Tower is not displaced by the Empire State Building," cried Mme. Schiaparelli early last month, at a Los Angeles Junior League luncheon. Fashioneers were not amused. In Manhattan last fortnight, Mme. Schiaparelli made her farewell speech-on the same day that delayed news came from Paris that Lucien Lelong's "corporative reorganization" of the fashion industry had been completed...
Artist August Henkel had a glib explanation for everything. He produced a photograph of mustached Franz Reichelt, pioneer parachutist killed in a leap from the Eiffel Tower, which had struck him as a "stunning design," formed the basis of the Stalin-like figure. The two Leftist pilots, said he, symbolized the spirit of self-sacrifice in aeronautical advance rather than political ideology. As for the red star, some one of his many assistants had probably made a slip. Lieut. Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, New York City's driving WPAdministrator, promptly ordered three of the four murals taken down, cremated...
Accompanied by a staff of art historians and architectural experts, the Führer visited the Opera, strolled through the galleries of the half-emptied Louvre, went to the top of the Eiffel Tower where a swastika waved, toured Montmartre. It was all very interesting to a man who had never been outside Greater Germany (except for two State visits to Italy) before...
Largest to date was the Experimenter, a craft in which house carpenters as well as boat builders had collaborated. Her four keels were laid on the principle of a catamaran. On her two lofty basketwork masts, which looked like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button. The freeze-up in the valley had made him rush his plans, and under bare baskets the Experimenter buzzed off among the gathering ice-cakes, pushed by her twin Diesel engines. It was New Year...