Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corsica's chief exports to France have been olives, Napoleon Bonaparte and Paris Police Chief Jean Chiappe. Two years ago Corsica's chief imports were General Fournier, 800 gendarmes, armored cars, airplanes and bloodhounds to hunt out Corsica's fourth best-known product: burly, pouting Bandit Andre Spada. Spada, whose name means ''sword," acquired much newspaper fame from loose comparisons of his activities with those of the oldtime Corsican mountaineers. who waged simple vendettas against one another. Andre Spada was just a gangster...
Julia lived in an exciting world, and knew it. She heard Adelina Patti sing, was carried away by Johann Strauss's conducting, thrilled to Col. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte's eyewitness account of Balaclava, wrote exclamation-filled pages on the Franco-Prussian War, and mourned, as even a poor little rich girl could, the Chicago Fire which swept away their grand house, her studio with its private staircase...
...Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet de Monvel who for the occasion was Napoleon III. Some 500 New Yorkers paraded the stage as titled Parisians and visiting nobility, escorted by gaily-dressed guards from New York's Seventh Regiment. The audience broke into cheers when chunky little old Maraella Sembrich came on as the Empress' mother. Grand Duchess Marie was magnificently regal...
...decision reminded the world last week of the rich rewards which frightened Europe was willing to pay 120 years ago to anyone who could beat Napoleon. The present Duke, still a fervent foxhunter at 84, is the grandson of the Iron Duke, was three years old when the latter died. The title Duke of Wellington and the right to bear the Union Jack on his coat of arms is but a small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad...
...titles of nobility. New Nazi decorations are about to be established but they can only be bestowed by the President. Prussia will once more have a House of Peers. New Peers will be created by the Premier on behalf of the Chancellor-in other words Handsome Adolf, like Napoleon, will found his own aristocracy. The Governments of Prussia, Baden, Bavaria rescinded all Republican laws against mensuren, the bloody, rapier duels of German student corps. Wrote the Volkischer Beobachter...