Word: tricolor
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...State procession of six carriages then proceeded from the station to Hyde Park Corner, down Constitutional Hill to Buckingham Palace. The route was lined with soldiers and police, behind whose cordons were tens of thousands of cheering spectators. "Little Italy" (Italian colony in London) was there, waving the Italian tricolor and shouting "Viva il Re" and "Viva Savoia." Inside the Palace Court was drawn up a guard of honor composed of the Yeomen of the Guard (Beefeaters) dressed in their picturesque Tudor uniforms...
...soft haze of romance that hangs over Monte Carlo, periodically-shattered by the moneyed persistence of stray American millionaires, may presently be brushed aside with the bourgeoise tricolor of France. This step is not prophesied for tomorrow, of course, but if Monaco follows the lead of several other microscopic principalities which have lately given up their independence, it will not be many years until the famous casino is nothing more than a grand old memory, and until the chants of the crouplers are embalmed in the of the cropiers are embalmed in the folk lore of the countryside...
...recent Italo -Yugo -Slavian Treaty (TiME, Feb. 4), having been ratified by the Yugo-Slavian Skupshina, the port and city of Fiume and the territory thereunto attached came legally under the Italian tricolor when King Vittorio Emanuele signed the Italian ratification passed by the Council of Ministers...
...Germany. Although originally Alsace and the lower Rhine were given to Germany and Lorraine was alloted to France, neither country has been content. The ebb and flow of time has in one century carried the German arms to Verdun and in another advanced the fleur-de-lis or the tricolor to the Rhine and Westphalis...
Davis Cup. Australia succeeds itself as America's challenger for the Davis Cup by lowering the French team's tricolor in three straight matches at Longwood Cricket Club, Boston. James O. Anderson (Australian captain) defeated the French schoolboy, RenÉ Lacoste; John Hawkes disposed of Jacques Brugnon in straight sets, and the same players, paired against each other, locked in a desperate five-set struggle which went the way of the Australians...