Word: prado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed Prado, boulevard of wealth and fashion, has trees down the middle, colonnaded sidewalks...
...their sombre eyes in which still smoldered the last fires of the Inquisition. He liked them because, having banished the spirit, they were very near to life, but he liked better those saints who, having banished the flesh, had embraced life itself. Now, the saints he loved throng the Prado at Madrid and other museums. St. Sebastian, who wears in his great beard the majesty of childhood; St. Jerome, with his riven ribs; grave St. Judas Tadeo, staff in hand; bushy St. Simon with a book; St. Maurice, pure and warlike, standing under the banners among the soldiers...
...doing business, after the siesta, over a glass of rum-punch and a long pale cigar, the gentlemen of Havana, Cuba, deported themselves last week as usual. They came in at dusk from their offices and clubs, from exercise in fencing-school and walks on the Prado; they thought comfortably that it was still some time before they must start dressing for dinner, and noticed with astonishment the blackness of the air. Was there going to be a storm, they wondered...
Newspapermen, appraising the damage later, put it at $5,000,000. Only five bedraggled trees were left standing in the Prado. Half the windows in the city were broken; many roofs blown away; several ships sunk in the harbor. The horses at the track-had run off through the ruins of their stables. The windows of the Havana Automobile Co. and the Ford Motor Branch were blown in. Camp Columbia had vanished. Ambulance surgeons began making up a death list;* truly the hurricane, blowing cone-shaped out of the West Indies, had done its work. And in the middle...
...statement that Leonardo da Vinci never copied his own works is hard to reconcile with critics' assertions that Scotland Yard experts have declared the fingerprints on various da Vinci replicas to be identical with those on originals; that two major continental galleries- the Louvre of Paris, the Prado in Madrid-have simultaneously exhibited a Mona Lisa. Suit for libel was entered against Sir Joseph...