Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meadows, a 48-acre field pack-jammed at every demonstration. As a special honor about 10% of each horde were privileged to goose-step past Realmleader Hitler in the public square, and, to make room for the marching columns, Nuremberg removed one of her most famed medieval monuments, the Fountain of Neptune, sacred to every tourist. "After the Party Congress is over," anxious hotel men declared, "the Fountain of Neptune will be put back where...
...record of Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst of Arizona is as follows...
...great Fascist-built motor via duct more than two miles long connecting Venice with the mainland. As he stepped ashore a small Balilla (Fascist Scout) squirmed between policemen's legs and ran up to // Duce panting "Please sign my Fascist card!" Out came the Dictator's fountain pen and at this pause the Venetian crowd burst into huzzahs and swept police aside in a scramble toward the Leader. Four tall gondoliers pounced on small Benito Mussolini, raised him shoul der high and carried him to his motor car. Cynics observed: "Those gondoliers were detectives!" Zipping out of Venice...
...hand into the rough-textured paw of Vice President John Garner. Paris was not surprised that "Momo," before reaching Washington, had visited the Chicago Century of Progress and care fully inspected that show's latest thing in painted nudity - Miss Mona Leslie who pops up out of a fountain, does a dance and finally plunges into a pool. As a judge of Mona no doubt "Momo" is peer less but Paris, jealous of the safety of her franc on the gold standard, resented the implied opinion of francs and French securities expressed by Baron Maurice de Rothschild to Chicago...
...important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...