Word: boney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they would get from most textbooks. Unfortunately, the frequent appearances of Caroline, strangling her ravishers with whips and pointing loaded pistols at them from her naked hip, make this novel unsuitable for school study...
...General of the French Army, in a book called The Riddle of Napoleon. He says the malady was an abscess of the liver complicated by amebic dysentery contracted on the island-approximately the sense of your article. He also flatly accuses the English of fabricating carcinoma, to quiet the Boney faction, and to get off the hook of cruelty to an eminent prisoner by confining him in an unhealthy place...