Word: corsican
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...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...
Soon Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe came to stand for long minutes looking down at the man he had often called his most valuable assistant. M. le Prefect is a Corsican, slick and hard, but his voice broke as he turned to M. Benoit, grimvisaged Chief of the Surete General (Secret Service). "You tell his wife, Benoit," said Corsican Chiappe, "I can-not-the five poor little ones...
...Joffre announced through his onetime aide-decamp, Colonel Fadry, that, at the age of 76, he did not feel equal to a two-mile walk. The end of the walk was the Crypt of Honor at the famed Hotel des Invalides, near the great, domed, imperial tomb of THE CORSICAN...
...Corsican Comet...
...Corsican, he had been sent to France to a military school because his parents were too poor to keep him at home. He brooded?shy, taciturn, lonely?while scions of the frivolous French nobility laughed at him. He wrote absurd fiction; he contemplated suicide. "Everything goes awry," said he to his diary. Then a long-smoldering idea flared up in his mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution...