Word: porticoes
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...From the portico of the formal, old-fashioned building in Berlin that used to be the assembly hall of the Prussian upper house, last week fluttered a flag embellished with five interlinking rings. It was the flag of the International Olympic Committee, the five rings symbolizing the brotherly accord, in sport, of five continents. Inside the former Herrenhaus met delegates from 45 nations to the Olympic Congress. They talked all week, making plans and taking cognizance of plans already carried out for the Tenth Olympic Games, to be held in Los Angeles in 1932.* Women's Events. Count Baillet...
...along more leisurely. In all that day President Hoover greeted 6,348 officials and citizens, the largest New Year's reception in many a year. The warm air in the White House, the heavy scent of flowers, perfume and outdoor clothing, drove the President out on the rear portico for fresh air twice during the three-hour ceremony. As he returned the first time, he said to Mrs. Hoover: "First down...
...morning last week Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, distressingly fatigued after months of tariff-writing, was marched to the front portico of the Capitol by a dictatorial movietone cameraman. He was instructed to make a speech on the Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the cineman commandeered Senator William Edgar Borah, hastening by to the barber shop for a much-needed haircut. Senator Smoot extolled his bill. Senator Borah looked glum. When the speech ceased Senator Borah turned, walked away. Cried the cineman, no student of tariff politics...
...Peter's Square. The day grew hot, the streets blazed. Black-shirted soldiers halted the crowds, inspected pockets, handbags. By 4 p. m. the immense elliptical plaza before St. Peter's was packed with 200,000 expectant, perspiring people. At the far end loomed the pillared portico of Christendom's mightiest church, draped with languid purple streamers, yellow and white papal flags, banners of Italy...
...sank. St. Peter's lofty contours slowly cast shadows over the throng. When the seminarians had all left the church there were silver trumpetings from the portico. Over the singing and stir of thousands, boomed the bells of Rome, echoing from the Seven Hills. A confusion of shouting arose: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa!" Down the steps tramped the Swiss Guards with glittering breastplates and halberds, down strolled a vivid mass of ecclesiasts. Two long rows of Cardinals followed, dressed in scarlet, heads bent, hands clasped in prayer...