Word: napoleonism
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...family housekeeper misbehaving with a grandee who Anthony does not know was his mother's husband. Having escaped the efforts of this malevolent pair to force his coach off the road into an Alpine pass, Anthony finds Angela getting along nicely in Paris as mistress to Napoleon. Then, accompanied by his small son, he sets off for the U. S. hoping to find the more abundant life...
...depicting Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, was augmented with artillery sounds at its first performance there in 1882. The fact that this old warhorse received its first NewYork rendition with similar effects last week was due to the Works Progress Administration and Colonel John Reed Kilpatrick, president of Madison Square Garden. The WPA's Federal Music Project, which has some 16,000 musicians on its rolls, wished to weld 210 members of three New York City WPA orchestras and a WPA symphonic band of 75 into a single unit for one big concert. Colonel Kilpatrick, who last spring...
...anchor behind Napoleon's breakwater in Cherbourg Harbor last week lay the huge U. S. battleship Oklahoma. Suddenly telephones jangled in the captain's cabin. Washington was calling with urgent orders. All leaves were to be canceled. Most of the Annapolis midshipmen aboard on summer training cruise were to be transferred to other warships. The ship and the Coast Guard cutter Cayuga were to proceed to San Sebastian immediately to rescue U. S. citizens from the inferno of Spanish civil war. Under way, the Oklahoma's petty officers doubled up in their cabins, and sailors cleared...
...state, and vomited majestically in the presence of all his nobles." Of Lafayette: "Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great Character was Napoleon: "A Royalist, a republican, and an emperor; a Mohammedan, a Catholic, and a patron of the synagogue, a traitor and a tyrant, he was through all his vicissitudes a Man." When Editor McGuffey clipped from the German Press a bloody, harrowing account of a railway wreck, called it The Crazed Engineer...
...December 1933, moved to West Point with two assistants in April 1935. Total cost: about $4,000, an astonishingly small sum for so large a work. Major General William Durward Connor, Superintendent at West Point, gave the artists plenty of advice on military matters, successfully requested that Napoleon be painted standing so that Wellington did not overshadow him. Like their commander, the cadets made numerous suggestions, once left for Artist Johnson this note...