Word: equestrian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throughout the city, as new buildings go up, old ones have come down, but around the Palace whole blocks have been demolished to make a new Royal Square between the Calea Victoriei and Boulevard Bratianu, a quarter of a mile away. Centerpiece of this new square will be the equestrian statue of Rumania's first Hohenzollern King, Carol I. Meanwhile, Carol II is staying at Cotroceni Palace, his late mother's favorite home, on the outskirts of town...
...Like Kosciuszko, Polish adjutant to General Washington who fought devoutly for an alien cause, Pulaski fought as a Brigadier-General in the American Revolution. He was killed at Savannah in 1779, and is memorialized by a fine equestrian statue in bronze in Washington and by a titanic $21,000,000 elevated highway over the filthy flats of New Jersey...
...flaming red shirts, in memory of oldtime General Wade Hamp ton, who drove the carpetbaggers back north and preserved "white supremacy." Senator Smith put on one of the shirts and. like a heavy-set Garibaldi, led the celebrants to the State House grounds. There, beside General Hampton's equestrian statue, he closed his campaign with a ringing speech to the midnight sky, ending: " 'Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. " 'Lest we forget-lest we forget...
Died. Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, 72, Russian sculptor; in Pallanza, Italy. Prince Paul first won recognition with an equestrian statue-a Red Indian modeled from a "Buffalo Bill" Cody Wild West Show in Milan...
...Duce was the last person to climb aboard, after which Der Führer on the platform talked to him animatedly through an open window until the car moved off- included three crates of "rare geese" presented by the Berlin Zoo, while the City of Hanover gave Equestrian Mussolini a silver statuette of a charger, the flesh and blood original to be sent to him in Rome. On II Duce's arrival, screaming men and women raced forward waving flags and handkerchiefs with cries to their Dictator of "A noil A noil" ("To us! To us!") Appearing...