Word: tricolor
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Last week Parisian notables assembled to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Eiffel Tower, built to attract visitors to the Paris exposition of 1889. François Carnot hoisted above it the same gold-fringed tricolor, which, as the son of France's President Sadi Carnot, he had first raised on March...
Schoolboys who retain from their history books an image of a pale, young Napoleon seizing the tricolor at the Battle of Arcole know the work of Baron Antoine Jean Gros. A pupil of David, the court painter and classicist, Gros took the field after he met Bonaparte at Milan and accompanied his army during the first Italian campaign. Charged by the Emperor with the duty of selecting artistic booty, he is responsible for the nucleus of the Louvre's vast treasury. Little known in the U. S., Gros was represented last week at Knoedler's by 17 pictures...
Austie Harding opened the play for Harvard with a long, lopping shot at 2.45, and play continued fast for the first eight minutes with both squads very evenly matched, and Johnson made several lovely saves before the tricolor knotted the count near the end of the period...
...Moscow editors front-paged portraits of Sun Stalin above eulogistic articles. Speeding from Madrid last week an official Spanish Leftist delegation arrived in Moscow bearing gifts and greetings. Madrid's main thoroughfare for a distance of a mile was decked with crossed flags: the red, yellow and purple tricolor of Leftist Spain and the hammer & sickle banner of Communism in general and the Soviet Union in particular. Moscow marchers across...
...Linden, the main thoroughfare, sprouted on each side colossal white pylons four rows deep and as high as the buildings behind them, each pylon topped with a glaring gold eagle. Aryan-owned buildings had the "honor" of sprouting both German and Italian flags, Jewish premises could only fly the tricolor of Italy. To greet the Dictators when they arrived at 5:30 p. m., Berlin's whole teeming proletariat had turned out for a holiday "with pay," proceeded to obey exhortations from Dr. Goebbels to cheer themselves hoarse. Through Berlin streets rode the Dictators, and II Duce was installed...