Word: prado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Switzerland one night in February 1939 crawled a train of 22 freight cars. Atop every second car sat a machine-gun crew, and as the train stopped, three French soldiers with fixed bayonets jumped from each car. The art treasures of Spain, snatched from Madrid's gun-gutted Prado and many another lesser museum, vandalized churches and bombed palaces, had reached safety in Switzerland. In the cars were 1,842 big packing cases, containing 266 masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Velasquez, Titian, Rubens, scores of other paintings, priceless collections of gold and silver work, porcelain, tapestries, sculpture, manuscripts...
Last week, with French and German big guns booming within range of Geneva, Spain seemed about the safest place for the 175 Spanish paintings. They were crated again, began their journey back to the Prado...
...sailors from a German training ship were not "pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes while goosestepping down Havana's fashionable Prado" according to footnote on p. 22 of TIME, Feb. 13. They were pelted while quietly sitting at a cafe, the Saratoga, behaving like gentlemen. I was there the entire time...
Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times stopped on a crowded, rutted road outside Figueras one day last week to inspect several truckloads of notable refugees. The last time he had seen them was outside the Prado Museum in Madrid two years ago and he was glad to see they had survived the long flight, first to Valencia, then to Barcelona, and now to France. They were paintings, masterpieces by Goya, El Greco, Velazquez, Murillo. taken from the National Museum and the homes of wealthy Madrilenos. Their value was incalculable...
...Month ago sailors from a German training ship were pelted with rotten eggs and tomatoes while goosestepping down Havana's fashionable Prado...