Word: murat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Benjamin Harrison had nominated Murat Halstead, crusading editor of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette as Minister to Germany. The Senate dug into his past, found he had written blistering exposes of the then common practice of buying Senatorial seats (Senators were elected by State Legislatures), and turned him down...
...superannuated barmaid, made her portraits glow with the oily iridescence of decay. When he drew the peasants, soldiers, beggars and trollops who swarmed in Madrid's dusty streets, he was less subtle, but no less furious. When, on the bloody Second of May (1808) Napoleon's General Murat. with 25,000 French soldiers, massacred the rioting civilians of Madrid, Goya calmly started to work with his hot etching needle, setting down a record of butchery that still horrifies queasy eyes...