Word: emile
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILHELM HOHENZOLLERN, THE LAST OF THE KAISERS- Emil Ludwig-Putnam...
...Emil Ludwig, who wrote about Napoleon (TIME, Feb. 28) now presents a Kaiser...
Down the frozen grand allee at Quebec a team of seven excited dogs romped. They were harnessed to a sled. Behind the sled trotted young Emil St. Goddard, smiling. It was the finish of the eastern international dog sled derby and St. Goddard had defeated his archrival, Leonhard Seppala, by the comfortable margin of 20 minutes, set a new record for the event (120 miles, 40 miles per day, elapsed time, 11 hr., 37 min., 35 sec.), won a cash prize of $1,000. Enthusiastic thousands noted that dogs with long legs had come in first. Conservative Seppala had relied...
Biographer Emil Ludwig is no dull historian, neither is he a manufacturer of fiction. He takes the story of Napoleon, rips away the nimbus of legend, builds upon the facts of history a character that would stagger any novelist. He peeps into Napoleon's bedroom on his wedding night; he thunders across France with Napoleon in his battle carriage with maps swinging on the walls. Wisely, Mr. Ludwig has made the diaries, memoirs, reported conversations and 60,000 letters of Napoleon the bulwarks of the biography. Few men have written so much and so interestingly about themselves as did Napoleon...
...Author. Emil Ludwig began to write plays at the age of 15 and, despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly...