Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Frederick VI of Norway & Denmark, having sided with Napoleon, was forced to cede Norway to Sweden. At the peace table it was read, "King Frederick cedes the kingdom of Norway with all its dependencies. ..." A smart Dane put in quickly, "excepting Greenland, the Faroes and Iceland." An Irishman named Edmund Bourke added, "These colonies have never belonged to Norway." In 1814 Norwegians, rankling at Sweden, scarcely noticed the lie or the loss of Greenland. They continued to hunt and seal on its gloomy eastern coast. The Danes claimed only the west coast. Greenland was still anybody's dead...
...view in the Treasure Room in Widener Library. This is a collection of signature of the kings and queens of all the royal houses of Europe, both past and present, Frederick the Great, Louis XII and Louis XVI of France, the Empress Eugenic, Victoria, the Emperor Charles V, Napoleon, and Louis Phillipe are all represented in this exhibition. Some of the documents bearing royal signatures are proclamations, and other military commissions...
Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It is better to call him Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, his father having been a cover-to-cover reader of the works of Horace Greeley. Last week Dr. Schacht said...
...contrary, famed "Little Dollfuss" (4 ft. 11 in.), whose friends compare him to "Little Corporal" Napoleon, was very much Chancellor of Austria last week, and doing his best to cure the Hitlerite sniffles before they should become political pneumonia. Rumors reached Vienna that some of the frontier posts dividing Austria and Germany had been pulled up in the night. Anything might happen. The fact that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany is by birth an Austrian increased the danger that Austrian Nazis might be able to seize the Government, helped (according to further rumors) by 60,000 German Nazis supposed...
...weary days in Sever and weary nights in Widener. And what a bad time to study it is. Berkeley appears even more esoteric and fanciful than in January. Surely it must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone. The gilt shimmer of Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being no mathematician, can only wonder what an equilateral...