Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Americans in the Philippines, annoyed by MacArthur's refusal to enter greatly into their social life, laughed at him and styled him Napoleon of Luzon, MacArthur sweated to forge a fighting force. Back to Washington went a stream of able reports, stressing the necessity for supplies for his Philippine Army. In his air-conditioned, penthouse apartment he gave fervid interviews to visiting newsmen, telling them how tough was his Philippine Army. He would stride back & forth across his room, purpling the air with oratory, punctuated by invocations of God and the flag, pounding his fist in his palm...
Homer Lea was a hunchback who wanted to be a hero. Before he was 18 he had mastered every detail of every battle Napoleon ever fought. While studying law at Leland Stanford University he made the acquaintance of some San Francisco Chinese who set his imagination to sparking on the coming Chinese Revolution. Knowing that he would never be accepted by the U.S. Army, he went to China, offered his services to Premier Kong Yu Wei, who was secretly plotting against the Dowager Empress...
...last week the Russians had unquestionably made substantial geographical gains (see map), but they had claimed no prisoners. They definitely claimed superiority in the air, but admitted that large German air forces had been withdrawn from the front. The Russians claimed that deep snows were confining the Germans, like Napoleon, to the roads, and that Red Cavalry, like the Cossacks of 1812. were constantly harassing the highway-bound, rear-bound enemy; and yet the Russians admitted that they were meeting little but rear-guard resistance...
Miss Garbo is cast as an Amazonish skiing instructor at a fashionable Idaho mountain resort. She meets, loves, marries one Melvyn Douglas, publisher of a Manhattan magazine called Tides and Currents. Half poet, half Napoleon, he leaves her in the snow to rush East on pressing publication matters. When he fails to return, Garbo goes after him, inadvertently poses as her own imaginary sister (a fascinating international trollop) and seduces her husband with ease. Everything ends slaphappily back in snowbound Idaho...
...Napoleon Bonaparte's pickled intestinal tract has been blown to glory, according to Britain's Surgeon Rear Admiral Gordon Gordon-Taylor. It went the way of all flesh when London's Royal College of Surgeons (and its Hunterian Collection) was bombed. Also gone: the tract of "one of the lady friends of Richard...