Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried to join the fighting was Dom Juan's 25-year-old brother, Pedro. These incidents led to speculations that back of the Integralistas was a move to restore the monarchy. Founded in 1822 by Dom Pedro I, son of Portugal's King Dom Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted until an uprising of landowners and army in 1889 forced Dom Pedro II to resign. Today his grandson, handlebar-mustached, white-haired Dom Pedro, lives a guest of the Brazilian Government on his tax-free Gráo Palace at Petropolis...
...wedding gifts poured in, it was evident that the international implications had not been overlooked-from Adolf Hitler came a sporty Mercedes-Benz; from Mussolini four bronze vases that once belonged to Napoleon; a statue of a dragon from King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy; Oriental rugs from Dictator Metaxas' Greek Government; and an elaborate secretary from Spanish Rightist Generalissimo Franco...
...subject of prison leadership, one unusually literate convict wrote as follows: "Historical heroes-leaders who have received the loudest acclaim from biographers have been warriors who led their people to conquest or freedom. Their dominant characteristics have been many-selfish Napoleon, ambitious Alexander, patriotic Washington, bigoted Cromwell. Would any of these be recognized as leaders in our modern prisons? I think not. They would be known within the walls as 'handshakers,' 'administration men,' and 'rats...
...Guitry fancy that the pearls were originally seven. In telling how their number was reduced to four, Sacha Guitry puts on the greatest parade of kings, ministers and great ladies ever assembled on stage or screen. He himself plays Francis I of France and Napoleon III. His wife, Jacqueline Delubac, is Mary Queen of Scots and the Empress Josephine. Of the rest Veteran Actor Lyn Harding's Henry VIII is brief but good, Actor Ermete Zacconi's Clement VII is great...
...doctors be sure of preventing the transmission to the U. S. of the louse-carried disease of typhus. And once typhus appears among dirty human beings huddled together in unclean army camps, trenches, jails, poorhouses, hospitals or ships, they die by thousands. Typhus, more than cold or Russians, made Napoleon retreat from Russia in 1812. In 1914 typhus killed 150,000 Serbs and 30,000 of their Austrian prisoners. The plague spread to Russia, where it infected 25,000,000, killed 3,000,000, and made Hindenburg fear to move German troops from his Polish front to his French front...