Word: corsican
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this summer have wanted to see the birthplaces of those two native sons, Napoleon Bonaparte and Paris' Chief of Police Jean Chiappe; they have wanted to see the mountains and the peasant dances and a flock of wild mouflon* and then they have wanted to see a real Corsican bandit...
...always Caviglioli," they muttered. Nobody had seen Caviglioli, nobody would say what he looked like. As the season progressed French thrill-seekers from the mainland† decided that Caviglioli the Bandit was a myth. Last week Caviglioli the Bandit appeared where the tourists were thickest, at the new Corsican resort of Guagno les Bains. Caviglioli turned out to be a squat, middle-aged fellow with a weather-beaten face, two pistols in his belt and two nephews, similarly armed, at his elbows. They appeared first at the Grand Hotel. The proprietor made no resistance but sent a frightened chambermaid scurrying...
Truex in a Parisian notions store, prevail upon him to double for the Corsican. Mr. Truex's first job is to tell a comely actress (Peggy Shannon) that he no longer loves her. But although she sees through the impersonation, she becomes enamored of the substitute, makes him spend the night. Josephine (Frieda Inescort) also falls under his spell. When Mr. Truex finally returns to the mercantile business, he is assured of the patronage of the whole court and Comedie Franchise. Says he: "If my strength holds out we'll have the biggest store in Paris." Picked...
...Manhattan, Chicago and Boston, homes in Manhattan, Westchester, London. He entertained lavishly, filled his homes with art. Much of this art consisted of paintings, busts, statuettes, bas-reliefs, medallions, etchings, biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte.* For between short (60-in.), high-foreheaded, large-eyed Merchant Siegel and the indomitable Corsican there were resemblances, real and fancied. Christmas 1913 brought Merchant Siegel to his Waterloo. His credit was expanded as far as possible; only a good season could have pulled him through. There was little buying that year. In January 1914, he went into receivership. Then there arose one of the great...