Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Bismarck. President Wilson, President Harding, "Tiger" Clemenceau, Napoleon III and Alexandre Dumas fils had only one weakness in common: prostatic hypertrophy...
Emil Ludwig is chiefly famed for biographies (Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, July '14); Diana is his first novel to be translated into English...
...hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon I and III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson...
Mahomet is described as an Arabian Lion, roaring, like the Lions of Wichita, Kan., in behalf of municipal improvements rather than God. The conquests of Alexander sprang from his original necessity to surpass the celebrity of his father, Philip of Macedon. Napoleon III was "a great adventurer; a beautiful addition to our collection." Catiline captained all the gangs in Rome in the enterprise, not of rebuilding his personal fortune, but of leveling all fortunes, murdering all governors, burning a city. He perished "not ingloriously," in "the adventure of death." Because the intelligence of Bolitho is very nearly equal...
...Napoleon Ill's Foreign Policy". Professor Langer, Harvard...