Word: napoleonism
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...near the French coast. "Insolent rascals, mutinous dogs," splutters the First Lord of the Admiralty, nursing his gout in Whitehall. Flame's crew have just sent word to London that they are tired of floggings and bad food. Unless their demands are met, they will desert to Napoleon...
...stage a revolution, I will stage one myself a week before him. All it will amount to is providing a few yards of rope to my 'descamisados' (shirtless ones) and then we will see who strings up who. I have half a million descamisados, and as Napoleon said, with me at their head we total one million...
Tragic Destiny was not likely to upset any literary reputations. The story of the demimondaine who sparked the Paraguayan Napoleon to dreams of empire and simultaneous war with Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil had been better and more fully told in English (William E. Barrett: Woman on Horseback). But Hildas thin volume was good reading and it might sell to Mexican movies. If it did, Hilda the actress would undoubtedly want to go with...
...silent as Ulysses S. Grant. . . . She is as wise as Benjamin Franklin and just as self contained. . . . Napoleon fought his battles with his marshals and so does Mrs. Netcher...
Married. Princess Laetitia Murat, 24, great-great-grandniece of Napoleon Bonaparte; and Lieut. Charles R. Codman Jr., 24, assistant military attaché of the U.S. Embassy in Paris; both for the first time; in Paris...