Word: marengo
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...hoof of Marengo, Napoleon's Arab charger, matched by a hoof of Wellington's Arundel...
...official Washington he has been, even more, Mr. Big. They might occasionally grumble at his tactics, but they had much the same practical faith and trust in Roosevelt the victor of 1932, 1934, 1936 that the officers of the Grand Army had in Napoleon the victor of Marengo, Austerlitz, Jena...
...stopped. There was the rumble of caissons over the cobbles, the dull roar of cannon, the outcries of a dispersing crowd, and Napoleon had ordered his first artillery into action. From that time on his name was writ large on the map of Europe. The Alps, Italy, Egypt, Marengo, and the little figure came out of the mists of Revolution into the garish sunlight of Empire...
TIME, Aug. 17th, was misinformed with others as to the contents & amount of the silver bowl left by charivarists in the Marengo, Wis. charivari. Witness letter written by victims, appearing in the Ironwood Daily Globe, as enclosed. Their liberality was over-estimated by reporters...
...Marengo Valley near Ashland, Wis., one Arvo Juoni, Finnish farmer, took a bride, remained with her at the farmhouse of her father, John Peterson, for a quiet, peaceful honeymoon. As Juoni & bride were about to retire there appeared outside the house a band of Finnish youths and maidens, beating tin pans, blowing horns, and demanding $15 tribute to stop. Father Peterson indignantly refused, so the charivari continued all night while father, bride & groom vainly tried to sleep...