Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insisted on having six rooms, so that one visitor might never know who his other visitors were. German newshawks, if they wanted an interview with Dr. Berliner, had to catch him en route to the railroad station. Somewhere in his numerous locked brief cases Austria's insurance Napoleon kept a toothbrush and a stiff collar. He had no other baggage...
...months later, he stole the show from reproductions of Columbus' fleet which had sailed to publicize the Chicago World's Fair. Sapolio's name became so well-known in Europe that Punch made a bad joke to the effect that children knew it better than Napoleon...
...clumsy little shock-haired man stood in the pit of a Vienna theatre, conducting an opera as if by might & main he could make its success. At 35, with deafness already upon him, Ludwig van Beethoven was presenting his Fidelia. Circumstances could scarcely have been worse. The week before, Napoleon had taken the city with the result that Austria's music patrons had withdrawn to the country. Temperature in the theatre was below freezing. Apathetic music critics found the score abounding in repetitions while the orchestra kept up a perpetual din. After three performances Beethoven's one & only...
...obvious sincerity and meticulous attention to fact. Another asset is its refusal to drag in that usual cinema qua non, a false romance. Yet these qualities, which make it good history, also make it a painfully pedestrian picture. Walter Huston has to boom out such lines as: "Napoleon tried to unite Europe and failed. I am trying to unite South Africa, and I will not fail...
Although it is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, aluminum was not isolated until a Dane named Oersted did so in 1825, by heating the chloride with potassium. Napoleon Ill's chemist, Deville, substituted sodium for potassium, got the price of aluminum down to $34, then...