Word: corsican
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...was?and his voice shook with pride when he said it? a Corsican. His grandfather, his own father's father, had been a cousin of Napoleon Bonaparte! His surname, once Buonfiglio? "good son" in feud-loving Corsica ?had become gallicized into Bonfils. He had attended West Point but left hurriedly. Corsicans, cousins of Napoleon, resent discipline. He had come West, flash and dapper, intent on a killing; and now he was already a legend. He was the Fred G. Bonfils who had lately cleaned out of Kansas City with $800,000 and no holes in his skin. That...
...Underlings at the Foreign Office palpitated, scurried. The request of Il Duce del Fascismo was coded, then put on the air by a potent wireless transmitter. The radio operator of Sir Warden Chilcott's yacht Dolphin caught the message, carried it to Sir Austen Chamberlain. He, vacationing in Corsican waters, was soon steaming aboard the Dolphin toward Leghorn, Italy...
...whom he is so often compared, placed his sister, the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, in that Villa. She is there still- reclining in marble on a marble couch, as Venus, whom she much resembled. Her husband, Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese, was paid another great compliment by Napoleon. The Corsican, with characteristic economy, left his beautiful sister at Rome, but caused the most valuable pieces in the Borghese' collection to be conveyed to Paris. They have never been returned. Strolling about the Louvre, one notes that its most precious exhibits are very apt to bear a discreetly printed card...
...short, cynical, perpetually sneering soldier presides over the Dictature which governs Greece (TIME, Jan. 11). He has dissolved Parliament, suppressed newspapers unfavorable to him, raised a forced loan (TIME, Feb. 1), and generally conducted himself with the arbitrariness of a Napoleon, without exhibiting the Corsican's personal charm. He is General Theodore Pangalos. He is said habitually to adorn his commands with the oaths of a drill sergeant. Last week he ripped out several terse orders. Promptly 15 Greek officers and politicians were marched aboard a ship and departed into exile. Pangalos barked again and all citizens were ordered...
...course everyone knows that Napoleon's soldiers tried to chip the face of the Sphinx into the likeness of the Corsican. Some of his men chipped once too often at tne lobe of the left ear, which fell off and nearly crushed five of them...