Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Georges were shown with the complacently stupid expressions of goldfish, and Lord Nelson's beautiful mistress, Lady Hamilton, was portrayed as a coarse, fat, dowdy Dido (see cut), mourning among the souvenirs of her lover's Nile victory, when he sailed away to fight another round with Napoleon...
...sleuth on the lovers' tracks, Goya caught the sleuth and calmly skinned the soles of his feet with a dagger. The book ends when the Duchess dies, and Goya, ferocious as ever but now stone deaf, embarks on an old age diversified with the turmoil and violence of Napoleon's invasion of Spain, which he reported in incomparable etchings...
Like most U.S. towns its size (pop. 4,825), Napoleon, Ohio had no bookstore. Townspeople had to buy their books at Schaaf's Pharmacy. This year they bought some 2,500 volumes (mostly 49? and $1 reprints of popular sellers), published by Cleveland's World Publishing Co. The sales were big enough to convince World that it would be worthwhile to sell cheap books where they had not been sold before. Last week International Circulation Co. (a Hearst subsidiary) began to sell World's 49? Tower books on 20,000 newsstands in railroad stations, supermarkets, cigar stores...
...blitz invasion according to Plan Green. D-day had been set for Oct. 1, 1938 and preparations had been made against possible reprisals on the part of France. Hitler was fully prepared to risk war. Cololnel General Alfred Jodl (who liked to compare his Führer to Napoleon) personally drew up a plan to bomb Prague without warning...
...Chicago Tribune's newsprint Napoleon, Colonel Robert R. McCormick, who had done most to blackball Marshall Field's rival Sun three and a half years ago, when the A.P. turned Field down, more than 2-to-1. Last week it was Colonel McCormick who did most to get Field in.* Bertie McCormick made it clear he was lumping it, but not liking...