Word: horatios
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...also supposed to be an "A" film. It isn't. Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It relies heavily on pidgin English for its humor and Horatio Alger for its plot, and the net result shows that a cliche, even in dialect, is still a cliche...
...western slope of Mount Etna, close by the village of Bronte, lies the Duchy of Bronte-a bit of England on Sicilian soil. Grateful King Ferdinand of Naples and Sicily presented the 17,000-acre estate and its great baroque castle to Horatio, Lord Nelson and made him Duke of Bronte. It was the King's way of thanking Britain's mighty sea hero for saving the Neapolitan monarchy from the French...
...went in for no activities at all. And what about the students who worked their way through college? Here the survey shatters an old American illusion. Among the Old Grads of 40 whose parents supported them entirely, 42% make $7,500 or more. The score for the Horatio Alger group...
...would appear from C. S. Forester's volumes on the subject that there were not many days in the early 19th century that Horatio Hornblower did not save. Doubtless he could have saved more, except that good manners ordained he should leave a little something for Admiral Nelson to do. However, Author Forester has long since carried his hero over the crests of his adventurous life, and in recent installments has been filling in the troughs...
Lieutenant Hornblower covers the period between Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (1950) and the high tides of action in Captain Horatio Hornblower (1939). It takes the young officer on a raiding expedition to the West Indies. A few days out, the captain goes mad, and has to be straitjacketed in quarters. Off Santo Domingo, the Renown runs aground as a Spanish fortress pounds her with red-hot cannonballs, but the "uncontrollable vigour" of young Hornblower saves the day. At his suggestion, a broadside fired at the fort jars the ship loose from the sucking sands; a night attack reduces the fort itself...