Word: rivoli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later King Alfonso went to Paris and stayed incognito at a hotel in the Rue de Rivoli-not at the Ritz as is Queen Victoria Eugénie's wont. His Majesty heard of another disaster on the outskirts of Melillo, in Spanish Morocco, where 57 persons were reported killed last week and some 200 injured, when a Spanish arsenal exploded. For the killed or injured Moroccans, however, the King of Spain was not reported to have shed tears...
...Buildings Commission. Said he: "An office building for our Embassy and Consulate will be erected. . . . Such a building as the Administration now has in mind would correspond with the architecture of the Hotel Florentin, the present residence of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue St. Florentin, and would balance the two larger structures of the Ministry of Marine and the Hotel Crillon, in accordance with the original plan of Jacques Gabriel...
...piping from its drowsy Valerian hillock Mr. Sullivan added a knowing and a star-spanGled obbligato. He was, in fact, closer to what was happening upon the shifty Quai D'Orsay than were several of the involved prime ministers. We met him one afternoon in the Rue de Rivoli, walking with Baron Sonnino and Wellington Koo. Arthur Krock, of The Louisville Times, was with us and he paused to speak to Mr. Sullivan and the others. ' Have you seen Lansing today?' asked Mr. Krock casually. ' Yes,' answered Mr. Sullivan. 'Well,' Mr. Krock inquired...
Many a time and oft in the Rialto and the Rivoli have we sat and wondered why the Pioneers of 47 and the Workshop had never been disputed in their dramatic sphere of influence in Cantabrigia. At last the money-changers of the Rialto are to come to our relief and change our dollar bills into half-dollars and rain-checks, and when the student of Philosophy is perplexed in the future with the problem "Why change your wife?" he can solve this problem without the help of any Widow, by sitting in at the Harvard Square student's latest...