Word: aronson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...butane cigarette lighter, with the first do-it-yourself replaceable spark wheel. Such innovations are expected to help raise sales from last year's $69 million to $77 million in 1965. That's quite a bit for a company started 70 years ago by a tinkerer named Aronson, who invented a one-motion cigarette lighter, dropped the A from his family name to make Ronson synonymous with lighters...
...GOLDEN BEES, by Theo Aronson...
...GOLDEN BEES, by Theo Aronson. A busy book indeed: the gossipy story of all the Bonapartes and their clamorous pursuit of instant aristocracy...
Readymade Kings. Napoleon I, Author Aronson points out, had "an almost primitive sense of Corsican clannishness," and it led him to elevate his four brothers and three sisters to positions in the Empire that they were ludicrously unsuited to fill. After Austerlitz, for instance, he made his misanthropic brother Louis King of Holland; Brother Joseph became King of Naples; Brother Jérôme became King of Westphalia; Sisters Elisa, Caroline and Pauline received various duchies in Italy; and Napoleon's widowed mother became Son Altesse Impériale Madame la Mère de l'Empereur...
...more recent generations, Author Aronson computes, the Bonapartes have married their way into just about every royal family in Europe. The present Bonaparte pretender, Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, is a chap in his late 50s who lives in Paris with his wife and four children on an inherited income and rarely speaks to the Count of Paris, pretender to the Bourbon throne. The American branch of the family produced several distinguished men (including Charles Patterson Bonaparte, Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt). But the line petered out with Jerome-Napoleon Patterson Bonaparte in 1943. The great-grandnephew of Napoleon...