Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Snowflakes, light and fluffy, powdered impudently, last week, the Sovereign Principality of Monaco. A bleak sea breeze whipped in across the Casino terrace, whining up long avenues of shivering palms. At the gaming rooms warmth and pulsing chance continued to abide?for business is business?but in a private room at the Casino de Paris, nearby a group of solemn diners pushed back their chairs, lifted their glasses slowly, and drank a last deep toast to "Poor Camille...
Monte Carlo, Monaco...
...gave considerable time to improving the physical appearance of the city. Lastly, to perpetuate his name in worthy fashion, he gave $3,000,000 to build, an aquarium in Chicago, for which he sent a commission to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity at Berlin, lighting in London. The Shedd Aquarium, now under construction, will contain 131 exhibition tanks with some of the rarest fish in the world...
...Louis Aquarium, $1,500,000; the New York Aquarium, antiquated but visited by millions annually (and now being re-stuccoed) after years of supremacy in the U. S. A commission of experts was sent last autumn to study aquaria abroad-the invertebrate collection at Naples, biological research at Monaco, artificial salinity in Berlin, lighting of tanks in London. Mr. Rosenwald's industrial museum gift paralleled the $2,500,000 bequest by the late Henry R. Towne, lock and hardware man, to New York for a Museum of Peaceful Arts (TIME, April 12): Mr. Towne had been interested in such...
...Basil Zaharoff, famed "mystery munitions Croesus of Europe" (TIME, March 8, MONACO), contributed 1,000,000 francs to a "Save the Franc Fund," now being administered by Marshal Joffre. Other contributors: City of Lyons, 250,000; the Paris Herald (U. S. expatriates' daily), 100,000 francs and 222,000 more from its readers...