Word: napolean
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Holtz wrote a victory song for the team during the pre-season but, like Napolean's Marseillaise-singing recruits, Holtz's charges have not amounted to much more than cannon fodder for the opposition...
...drunk the fountain of youth and gleaned strength enough therefrom to make another record. The anachronistic session took place under the auspices of the Swan Record Company and the songs "Sister Kate" and "I'll Never Be The Same" were played. Supported by another refugee from the mothballs, Phil Napolean, a cornetist who used to tootle feebly with Miff Mole and the rest of the Memphis Five, Tony whistles, sings and hums through a comb wrapped in tissue paper throughout both sides. Napolean--unlike King Oliver, the Benny Goodman band and fresh mackerel--has actually improved with age. There...
...thing anyhow for a son to live in the shadow of his father's greatness. Only the very great shine through the umbra? Alexander, son of Philip; Alexander, fils de Dumas pere; William, son of the elder Pitt. But what was the waning fortune of the sons of Cromwell, Napolean, Caesar...
...decree of the plebs or common people. It was resurrected by the French during the Revolution and possibly its most famed application in modern history was in 1852 when the French coup d'etat of 1851 was confirmed and the title of Emperor of the French given to Napolean III. In Switzerland, under the name of referendum, the plebiscite has been in existence for a long time...
...application of medical science to historical research has already given birth to one fascinating volume. The maladies of Henry VIII, however, have little but antiquarian interest. A more fertile field for investigation offers itself in--contemporary history. If it is true that Napolean lost the battle of Waterloo because, of a stomach-ache it can doubtless be proved that Hindenburg was suffering heart-burns when his famous line was smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia...