Word: eiffel
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...struck in honor of the Legion's visit. Out came the bunting and the banners of welcome all over the city. Signposts in English would direct the former doughboys to the sights of Paris. And immediately those sights began to take on colorful decorations. From base to summit the Eiffel Tower would be a blaze of electric lights. And forthwith the Champs Elysees began to erect two chains of bulbs, six inches apart, from the Arc de Triomphe clear down to the Place de la Concorde. Far more than 100,000 extra electric lights will be used in la ville...
...Trocadero, public assembly hall hard by the Eiffel tower, was made ready for the formal convention of 1200 delegates. State of ficials laid out the 3,500,000-franc reception fund which the French parliament lately supplied...
...Paris, one Renée Valette, 18, leaped from the Eiffel Tower to die, as many another had done successfully. After twirling down 35 feet, her skirt caught on a projection, where she dangled until workmen, scolding, hauled her to security...
...arose at 6:30 a. m., worked on his own plane Spirit of St. Louis, at Le Bourget airport. Then he left the soil of France, circled the Eiffel Tower twice, flew low over the Arc de Triomphe, dropped a farewell message on the Place de la Concorde. It read: "Goodbye, dear Paris. Ten thousand thanks for your kindness...
...Paris, one Gaston Orpholan, billiardist, climbed to the second platform of the Eiffel Tower and shouted at the city that his wife would not let him play billiards. Therefore he was going to jump to his death. For five hours policemen begged him not to do so; he demanded that his wife come. She did. Then he jumped...