Word: duels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accent on the vice. Taking advantage of a gimmick (since corrected) in the Constitution, Burr, running for Vice President with Jefferson (who was running for President), was almost able to get the top job for himself. While he was Vice President, Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, was indicted for murder, skipped to Georgia, returned to preside over the impeachment trial of Justice Samuel Chase, made a moving farewell address to the Senate and slammed the door when he walked...
...went on to quote a blustery article Sir Winston had written 40 years ago in defense of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. "This right honorable gentleman," interrupted Sir Winston, "has hitherto been trying to hide behind me. Now I gather he is endeavoring to hide behind my father." The duel came to a sudden end when Sir Winston had to leave the floor, apparently for a room which in Britain always bears his initials. "As I see the right honorable gentleman about to leave," said Bevan, "I think of Shakespeare: 'What private anxieties we have ye know...
...manages to mirror the changing spirit of France. Under angoisse (anxiety), the new supplement quite naturally includes a discussion of existentialism; under égalité (equality), it notes that the "preamble of the [French] Constitution of 1946 completes this principle . . ." There are brief biographies of Lillian Gish (revived with Duel in the Sun") and Charles Chaplin, "the most authentic genius of the cinema." Picasso has swelled to 77 lines; Malenkov and Beria have arrived; Korea has grown from two-thirds of a column to two-thirds of a page. Eisenhower, Truman and Churchill are all hommes...
...Premier Edouard Daladier rose from the benches of the moderate Radical Party. "If Germany prefers the European Army," he cried, "it is because she has the certainty of establishing her hegemony over Mitteleuropa, reconstituted by our efforts . . . The Russian soldier has never set boot on French soil since the duel which opposed Czar Alexander to the Emperor Napoleon. The German soldier has invaded it three times in 70 years." This line so pleased the Communists in the Assembly that, for the time being at least, they stopped calling Daladier "The Man of Munich...
Readers who are interested in money will enjoy reading of how innocent Eden persuades almost all the Whiteoaks to invest in Mr. Kronk's phony mine. But those who think love is more important will follow with bated breath the duel between steady Renny and giddy Dilly...