Word: helena
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...recognition as a pantomimist. Now she was called upon to speak for the first time in her career?and in a strange tongue before foreigners. Cast with her were such clearly Teutonic actresses as Katta Sterna (Puck), Maria Solveg (Titania), Tillie Losch (First Elf), Christa Tordy (Helena). Miss Pinchot never once stuttered...
...Everyone knows the rest of the story?the coup d' etat . . . imperial crown of golden laurel leaves . . .Austerlitz and "name your children after me" ... a treaty on a raft at Tilsit . . . the comet begins to droop . . . conqueror of a burning Moscow . . . Leipsig and puny Elba . . . Waterloo and hellish St. Helena...
...professor rounded up talent and discovered a first class bassoon player, formerly with the German and Slavic Philharmonic in Laibach, Austria, sawing wood for new garages in Butte; one of Finland's best clarinets coal-digging in Red Lodge; an able violinist in a Helena high school. Additional products were imported...
...range of the book is indeed enormous, covering as it does Napoleon's early life in Corsica, the tremendous activity of his years of power, and the six years of solitude in St. Helena, which are described as fully as any other period in his life. The tempo and the style are swift, an artistic device to convey the energy of the subject. It is successful too in suggesting the development of Napoleon's plans with the progress of his achievements. No premature dreams of world dominion are attributed to the Artillery officer when he is still intriguing unsuccessfully...
...Rumanian version of Helen, Helena, Helene, Eleanor, Nellie, Ellen...