Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wilhelm of Ponte Corvo, second son of King Gustaf of Sweden, Duke of Sodermanland, divorced husband of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. To boot, this personage is a lion hunter, a poet, a successful dramatist and a descendant of Jean Bernadotte, Napoleon's great marshal...
...fields and shops; to buy equipment; go forth into the world. Nothing is closer to the heart of Mr. Davis than Mooseheart. He has a home there, and is always on hand for the colony's jubilees. The late "Uncle Joe" Cannon once called him the "Napoleon of Fraternity."* 'He knows nothing of golf, calls it an old man's game. 3) He went into politics. First he ran for town clerk of Elwood, Ind. His opponents, finding that his schooling consisted of one year, said that he was too ignorant for the office. Whereupon, he began...
...ideals of the French revolution and its battlecrles of fraternity and equality for all, the composer saw in Bonaparte the militant Messiah who with sword in hand was advancing to do battle with the foul breathed dragon of oppression. When instead of striking off the fetters of Europe, Napoleon bound it with the chains of his empire, Beethoven in a fit of disappointed rage tore the dedication of his symphony into a thousand shreds. But, after all, the majestic Eroica still sounds just the same...
...Baldwin was unknown and Mr. Bonar Law had not held office, he looks back on 30 years of romantic adventure that would provide material for a dozen normal lives which would find a place in the Dictionary of National Biography; on experiences of war in more continents than Napoleon fought in; on a library of books that would not do injustice to a life spent in literature, or journalism, lecturing, painting; on a political career more full of vicissitudes than any since that of Bolingbroke; and on the tenure of more great offices in the State, not merely than...
...clean, brave, loyal, highly educated men. . . . The mob howls at the Kaiser as our people did at the President of the late Confederate States [Jefferson Davis]. . . Each was charged with cowardice for seeking to make his escape. The same people would probably have said the same thing of Napoleon I, when he abandoned his troops in the Russian winter of 1812, or when he took refuge in the arms of England after the loss of Waterloo. It is a matter between these rulers and their conscience whether or not it had been better for Napoleon to have blown his brains...