Word: conquerors
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Indeed, as Napoleon's little squadron sails northward to France through the British blockade, Herbert can hardly restrain a huzzah. Miraculous! he chortles. "The gods were on Napoleon's side." However, says Herbert, the decision to escape was by no means a pleasant one for Napoleon. The conqueror of Europe, Herbert assures his readers, wanted nothing but to make Elba "an island Athens," and "die peaceful and happy" there. "The charge is not that one man, through wild ambition, would not accept defeat. It is that the many, having no magnanimity, were unfit for victory." The book ends...
Where may the new religious movement flower first? "It might not start in America or in any European or Western country," said Toynbee, "but in India. Conquered India will take her matter-of-fact American conqueror captive . . . The center of power in the world will ebb back from the shores of the Atlantic to the Middle East, where the earliest civilizations arose 5,000 or 6,000 years...
...descent from a supporter of King John's in his war with the barons, had his pedigree lopped by 200 years. The best proved ancestor Pine could give Lady (Harriet Kathleen Grace) Thompson, whose family had for generations enjoyed descent from Odo, brother-in-law of William the Conqueror, was one Oliver Grace, a 16th century M.P. from Tipperary. "I'm challenging Burke's to show by what authority they make our family suffer this indignity," said the outraged Lady...
...whose family never dared peep behind Henry VIII for forbears, learned that his line went right back to Richard I, second of the Plantagenets. "There is a very great probability," said Editor Pine last week of the Howe family, "that one of their ancestors came over with the Conqueror . . . I may trace a direct descent from him even before the coronation...
Aggressive Pat Marcune of Brooklyn racked up his fifth straight victory by whaling his two-time conqueror, Eddie Compo of New Haven in a ten rounder at St. Nicholas Arena last night...