Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...settled to the water offthe "honor pier." A navy cutter came alongside, battleships and Fort Akershus boomed salute, the populace of Oslo yelled and waved a welcome. Director Thormessen of the Norwegian Aero Club rushed forward, embraced each of the six fervently. There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons; officials, including the Burgomaster and the President of the Storting (Parliament) became apoplectic with admiration and praise; Amundsen replied that he was speechless. More cheering, hymns, the national anthem...
Despite the fact that the Minister of Education, M. Anatole de Monzie, was insulted when he visited the Bolshevik pavilion in the imposition Internationale les Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes (TIME, June 15), President Gaston Doumergue decided to "chance...
Realizing that he had blundered, but not knowing how, M. Tichmenev said: "Help yourselves, Messieurs," drained his glass. The Presidential party drank, drained, departed, having spent exactly four minutes in the pavilion...
Many who were present at that performance came from farther than 21 miles away. The Ravinia opera pavilion, built in 1905 of pine lumber, has remarkably fine acoustics. Said Otto Kahn, famed banker and music patron: "It is like a fine old Stradivarius violin...
...Exposition was le Sénateur de Monzie, Minister of Education, accompanied by several other Senators. Greetings between the Senators and the Ambassadorial party over, they proceeded to the Soviet Pavilion in the Exposition, smiling and chatting...