Word: huguenots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been a better novelist. The light he sheds on world affairs flickers somewhat dimly beside the flashes of Duranty, Gunther, Sheean; but for character vignettes and earthy episodes, he beats the lot. Examples: >The headmaster of his grammar school in Gorcum, Holland, was a tightlipped, frog-eyed, wrinkled Huguenot with the curling fingernails of a Chinese mandarin and the literal severity of a Spanish Inquisitor. He beat a boy to unconsciousness for writing the phrase "snowflakes fluttering from a pitilessly gray heavenly roof." Heaven, it seemed, was never pitiless. After morning prayers he took snuff, which made him sneeze...
Parentage on father's side stems from Bolivar's Spanish aide, General Juan de Sola; on mother's side from Pennsylvania German and Huguenot stock who settled here in 1632 and fought in the Revolution...
Because old places are living things in time-soaked Charleston, it was not in human for the city to count its casualties in terms of history. Unroofed or other wise seriously injured were "the only Huguenot Church in America" (1681); St. Philip's Church, in whose graveyard lie the bones of Statesman John C. Calhoun and the William Rhett who captured Pirate Stede ("Bluebeard") Bonnet; City Hall, once a branch of the Bank of the United States which Andy Jackson and Henry Clay rowed about; Miles Brewton House (1765), where Lord Cornwallis once stayed during the Revolution. Razed...
...Adams, and from London came Richard Oswald, a merchant whom Shelbourne considered sufficiently canny to deal successfully with the Yankees. The stage was set for great deeds. For reasons personal or traditional the gulf between Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Jay was equal to that between Jay the Huguenot and le Comte de Vergennes, French foreign minister, or between de Vergennes and Charles James Fox. To quote an historian, "Adams thought Franklin was an atheist of no morality, and Franklin thought that Adams was a madman who was all the more dangerous as he was honest...
Based partly upon the case of a Huguenot. Jean Galas, who was executed for murder in Toulouse and partly upon the case of an army officer who was beheaded for treason. Voltaire does not adhere to history at the expense of drama. George Arliss, who likes to be a kind, romantic, dignified old gentleman, makes Voltaire more whimsical than embittered but he gives a dextrously intelligent performance...