Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys broke a 6 to 6 deadlock by using a walk, a ball, a freak fleider choice, and an error to manufacture a run. In the seventh the Crimson had finally overcome their four un deficit when Gane Lovett's liner got away from Holy Cross' right fielder, Ray Monaco, and let four Harvard runs rickle across the plate...
...whatever theorists have said about small mechanized armies, the fact is that every country on the Continent (except Monaco, Luxemburg and Liechtenstein) has conscription and that, far from the armies becoming smaller, they have grown by divisions. Every time Britain started to make commitments on the Continent (such as that made years ago to France and last week to Poland), foreign military men were apt to ask embarrassing questions about the size of the British Army. France long ago let it be known that she was interested in getting British cannon fodder as well as British cannon. What Napoleon, Tsar...
...Herr Hitler's latest aggressions has been to bring the ticklish issue of conscription to the fore. Whereas formerly few politicians would touch the subject with a ten-foot pole, last week it was discussed openly. Another Hitler coup and the last conscription-free nation (except Liechtenstein and Monaco) in Europe may go in for compulsory universal military training...
...Siena declined in art and war, Florence grew great. Transition painter in Cleveland's show is Lorenzo Monaco, Siena-born, Florence-bred. He was followed by a virile stampede of topnotch Florentine painters : Filippo Lippi, Piero di Cosimo, Andrea del Castagno, Fra Angelico, Andrea del Sarto, all at Cleveland and all masters of form who had graduated from the childish mysticism of the Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking...
...lead which subsequently revealed that the gang maintained headquarters in Monte Carlo, entertained prospective customers with yachting trips along the Côte d'Azur, houseparties at their French chateaux. Last week the French Surété Generale, on the obliging advice of Prince Louis II of Monaco, who seemed curiously well acquainted with the gang, pounced on one Hungarian and one Czechoslovakian with $440,000 of the Devine securities, when some of them were being offered for sale at a Paris bank...