Word: eau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SANTELLA Eau Claire...
Pilfering Snuffboxes. All but invincible in the saddle, Napoleon was all too vulnerable at home. He hated to get up in the morning, indulged in two-hour-long hot baths, delighted in being rubbed down with Eau de Cologne by his valet. At work he tipped back in his chair, whittled away with a penknife on the arm of a chair. In council meetings he made such a habit of pilfering snuffboxes that his ministers resorted to bringing their snuff in cardboard boxes. Worried about becoming fat, Napoleon stoked himself through the day with licorice flavored with anisette. He bolted...
...picture frames and glassware smashed on the floor. In the bathroom, police found the tub covered with plywood boards and a mattress. In it was the decomposing body of Félicie Crippa, eleven months dead of head wounds. Instead of Lysol, Clé had poured several gallons of Eau de Cologne into the water...
Horse Scents. In Cologne, Germany, the famed "4711" eau de cologne company obtained a court injunction to force Manure Collector Karl Kolsch to remove his telephone number-4711-which he had painted in 20-in.-high numerals across both sides of his horse-drawn fertilizer wagon...
Where Khrushchev, the proletarian, overflows with animal vigor, Bulganin exudes good manners 1;and a faint whiff of eau de cologne. Khrushchev's idea of fun is to strip off his shirt and wrestle with his colleagues; Bulganin's sport is fishing, and he loves ballet. "Dress Bulganin up in striped pants and a black coat, and he'd look at home in any European Parliament," says one Western diplomat. "Khrushchev in the same garb would still look what he isa tough proletarian...