Word: nelson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Union (Class of 52): Malcolm G. Armstrong, Richard T. Button, Theodore O. Cron, A. Holmes Fetherolf Davis S. Fine, Calus P. R. Gossels, William H. Holden, albert J. Klingel, John Lowis, Benhamin F. MacDonald, Robert D. Mohlman, John G. Mercy, Edward P. Morrissey, Charles E. Nelson, Daniel I. Pack, Chase N. Peterson, Harvey Robinson, Costas C. Rodis, Richard m. Sandler John J. Shea, Charles W. Sullivan Elhanen C. Stone, Robert B. Thompson, William J. T. Willis...
...second feature utilizes another famous team, that of Olivier and Leigh. "That Hamilton Woman" is supposed to be the love story of Lord Nelson and the wife of a British ambassador in Naples. It is also beautiful acted, staged, and directed; unfortunately the fact that it was written during the Battle of Britain is too obvious whenever politics is mentioned. The script is almost pure propaganda in places. However, beyond these perhaps picayune details, "That Hamilton Woman" is an entertaining movie and an excellent piece of work...
...British Admiralty turned a blind eye to all this, so long as it took place on the Continent. But conservative officials were dismayed when Nelson took London by storm, flaunting like a battle-prize his lusty and pregnant mistress. Poor, respectable Lady Nelson took a brief look and fled. After a brilliant victory at the Battle of Copenhagen, Nelson set up house in the country, with the Hamiltons. Nelson himself seemed to be settling into the role of a country squire...
Trafalgar Trust. Many an Englishman decided then & there that Nelson would never put to sea again. But the Lords of the Admiralty knew better. One-eyed, one-armed, rheumatic and bubbling with enthusiasm, Nelson left bed and boudoir and pursued the French fleet with his old, extraordinary combination of "unexampled patience" and fanatical excitement. "Nelson confides that every man will do his duty" was his original cocky message to his fleet, but he "cordially approved" when an officer suggested that "England expects . . ." would be more to the point...
...expose himself on the most suicidal part of the deck. He merely wore his usual frock coat and quietly paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other is from Sir William Hamilton-that "strange man" who, by all the rules, should have...