Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flags of Italy and Hungary though the Hungarian flag is of a different stripe (horizontal). Firmly grasping thousands of both kinds of flags in their damp fists, Budapest school children lined the streets last week all the way from the railroad station across the Danube to the vast pile of Franz Josef's royal palace above the city. The kingless Kingdom of Hungary was entertaining the first royalty to visit it officially since the owl-eyed King of Siam went to Budapest shortly after the War. Little old Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, his strapping Queen and Fascist Foreign Minister...
...hearing was unimpaired, his sight good, most of his teeth sound. He liked to chat on the latest in finance or politics, kept in touch with oil business almost daily. About the only thing he refused to discuss was Rockefeller Center. He thought his son's Manhattan pile was close to sheer folly...
...year, Kirkland led all the Houses when spring sports were just starting, but then they went into a slump and let Lowell pull away to gain the crown. This year, they were again in the van in March, but unlike the season before, they swept everything before them to pile up a substantial lead on the Bellboys...
Winthrop scored in every event except the 880 and the pole vault, taking four first places. Leverett likewise missed only twice, and it was this all-round ability that enabled these two Houses to pile up a substantial lead over the others...
...dealers in Indidnapolis concocted a stunt which would both emphasize safety and draw attention to themselves. They announced they would burn $75,000 worth of used cars at the fair grounds because the roads would be safer without them. At 8 p. m. Thursday evening last week the huge pile of jalopies was touched off while firemen and some 25,000 others looked on. It made a magnificent bonfire, but its value as a publicity stunt was slightly vitiated by a somewhat larger blaze half an hour earlier at Lakehurst...