Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strictly Harvard side of the balance, one finds "Publish or Perish" by Victor H. Kramer '35, in which Phillipic Little Napoleon storms the academic heights of University Hall in denunciation of the overemphasis of so-called "creative scholarship...
Engineer Mussert has the stocky, powerful figure of Napoleon, the unruly forelock of Hitler, and his name begins with the same letters as Mussolini. If Queen Wilhelmina would let members of his N. S. B. wear distinctive "political shirts," Engineer Mussert has said that they would be not brown but black. He talks about installing in the Netherlands a version of Il Duce's Corporative State with buxom Queen Wilhelmina shrunk in political size to match peewee Victor Emanuel...
...Wreck, Put-putting motorboats carried the French and British out from their hotel to Emperor Napoleon's erstwhile palace on an island where Benito Mussolini slept nightly last week in "the Josephine bed." Il Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands...
Medicine has known about epilepsy from the time of the Babylonians. Julius Caesar suffered from it, as did Napoleon. Dostoevski, an epileptic, unraveled the epileptic's mind and life for literature. But, despite ancient recognition and voluminous analyses of symptoms. Medicine even today knows very little about the causes and treatment of epilepsy...
...traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table d'hôte that evening, Jane Dale leaves the table. Nor is her appetite stimulated by a legal complication possible in Louisiana whose laws are based on the Code Napoleon. She admits owing Shevlin $60 for parts of his car which she bribed a mechanic to trans fer to hers. Palpably she, a debtor, was attempting to leave the state. According to the law, that situation gives the creditor "custody of the body...