Word: napoleone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word-a word delivered with the sneers reserved for "abstractionism" today-"realism...
...Descendant of a William Glass whose family stayed behind on Tristan in 1817, when Britain, convinced that Bonapartists could not use the island as a base for rescuing Napoleon from St. Helena, withdrew the small wartime garrison. Later, three sailors who had served with Nelson joined the Glasses. To Tristan, too, came a few dark-skinned women from St. Helena. Today, the much intermarried but sturdy Tristanites have only seven surnames among them: Glass, Swain, Green, Reppeto, Lavarello, Rogers and Hagan...
Such self-sacrifice moved the party to forgive Miss Li. She burst back into the campaign by hiring a plane to drop 50,000 leaflets. Cried one of her fans: "She's like Napoleon come back from Elba." But her opponent, Miss Liu, tearfully pulled a few wires. Result: the day before election, Miss Li's name was scratched from the list of candidates. "I'm so mad!" quivered Miss...
Death from gastric cancer, Napoleon was convinced, ran in his family. His grandfather, Joseph Bonaparte, died of that disease at the age of 40; so did his father, Charles, at 39. Napoleon did not like to talk about cancer but he could not conceal his fear, Miss Vincent declares: he had "a queer interest" in anatomy, particularly the anatomy of the stomach...
...perforation near the pylorus (the stomach's opening into the small intestine) showed up in the autopsy on Napoleon; the internal surface of the stomach was "practically covered by a cancerous mass, as were all of the lymph nodes...