Word: duellist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results of the Revolution, wrote panegyrics on its heroes, and supported Walpole, its perfect representative, in office. Yet the student of politics finds nearly the whole period of Walpole's ministry torn by bitter party and personal antagonism; to him. Walpole seems even greater as a kind of political duellist, always outwitting a pressing throng of foes, than as an enlightened national financier. Professor Laprade, in "Public Opinion and Politics in Eighteenth Century England", has shown that a study of the controversial journalism of the period throws much light on both aspects of the minister's career and -- more important...
Died. Marie Paul Ernest Boniface ("Boni") de Castellane, Marquis of the 1st French Empire (sic), 64, spender, dandy, duellist, onetime husband of Jay Gould's daughter Anna; of a paralytic stroke; in Paris. He battened his reputation for the grand manner with his wife's millions. She divorced him for presenting her with "kings & emperors one day, slaps the next," married his cousin, Duc de Talleyrand. "Boni'' wrote two books, How I Discovered America and The Art of Being Poor, worked as middleman between auctioneers & wealthy foreigners. His title, traced by him to the year...